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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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When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.
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Art rides in on pleasure.
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When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.
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In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them.
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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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Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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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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Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.
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We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.
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You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.
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Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.
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Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
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When anything goes, everything goes.
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When you have made a good painting, don't do another like it, but remember the process, what you did, what you were thinking and feeling.
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Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.
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When anyone can produce dreck or publish gibberish, and not only get away with it but be celebrated for it, the discipline is no longer a discipline, and it will get no respect.
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Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.
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