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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 flows more easily when you are not thinking about what 'should' be in it or how it 'should' be done. The Impressionists taught us to look and see, not assume.
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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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You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.
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Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
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Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.
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Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.
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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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Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.
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A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.
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Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.
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Truth is not always hard to find it is often staring you in the face. The problem with truth is that it is hard to believe. It is even harder to get other people to believe.
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Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.
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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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A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
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There is no best way to make art, but there are a lot of better ways.
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In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.
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One needs to be right before getting righteous.
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There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.
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Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.
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Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
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