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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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To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from the past when we see it freshly.
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The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing.
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Stale artifacts of the past' are always 'active components of the present moment' when they are experienced in the present moment.
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Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.
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Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.
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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea.
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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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When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.
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It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?
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Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
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Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.
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You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.
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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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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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Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
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Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
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