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Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.

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Walter Darby Bannard
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: January 1
Died: 2016
Died: October 2
Painter
Printmaker
New Haven
Connecticut
Darby Bannard
W. Darby Bannard
Walter Bannard
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Art is there for nourishment, not explication.
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Many years ago, Clement Greenberg said, 'All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.' This should be updated now to 'All profoundly ugly work looks original at first.
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Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.
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Whether something is called art is beside the point. What counts is what happens when you ask it to actually be art.
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If we see an object as a bowl, it may inhibit seeing it as craft, just as seeing it as craft might inhibit seeing it as art. See first name later.
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There is no best way to make art, but there are a lot of better ways.
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Don't explain, enjoy.
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Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
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Art is too popular. If plumbing was as popular as art is we would have amateur plumbers running around brandishing wrenches and Roto-Rooters, climbing in and out of sewers and writing gibberish about pipe systems. And none of our our toilets would work.
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Stale artifacts of the past' are always 'active components of the present moment' when they are experienced in the present moment.
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One needs to be right before getting righteous.
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An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
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Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
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Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas.
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Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.
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We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.
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Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.
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When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble.
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Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.
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Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.
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