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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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Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
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Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.
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You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.
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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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Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.
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Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.
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Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.
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Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.
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When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.
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Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.
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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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Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.
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Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
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The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.
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Art is not 'about.' Art is.
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