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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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When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble.
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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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Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.
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There is no best way to make art, but there are a lot of better ways.
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Whether something is called art is beside the point. What counts is what happens when you ask it to actually be art.
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Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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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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We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.
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In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.
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