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Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.
Walter Darby Bannard
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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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Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.
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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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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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Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.
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The struggle to be original hates conformity, but the struggle to be better disregards it, or takes advantage of it to build workable conventions.
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No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism.
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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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Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
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When anything goes, everything goes.
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Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.
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Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
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