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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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Art is like a butterfly fluttering in a meadow. Analysis of art is like a butterfly on a pin. Each has its value, but we must always be aware of the difference, and what is gained or lost.
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Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.
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When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.
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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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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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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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The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.
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We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.
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Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.
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Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best.
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When you have made a good painting, don't do another like it, but remember the process, what you did, what you were thinking and feeling.
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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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Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.
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An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
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When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.
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Art is not 'about.' Art is.
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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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