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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
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Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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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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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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The power of art is not in communication but effect what it does, not what it relates.
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Of course I will look at anything, but I have not got the time or the patience to keep on looking at art that I know could be better. I don't want art that needs fixing, I want art that sends me back to the studio to fix my own.
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If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality.
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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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Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas.
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Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us beyond language.
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A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
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There's a big difference between grabbing attention and rewarding attention.
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Don't explain, enjoy.
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Power is like money. Some know how to get it few know how to use it.
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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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Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
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An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
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When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
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