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When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea.
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
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W. Darby Bannard
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Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
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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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Many years ago, Clement Greenberg said, 'All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.' This should be updated now to 'All profoundly ugly work looks original at first.
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What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead, / green citrus fruit / upon my head.
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Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
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Most art is just surface noise.
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Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
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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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Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.
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Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.
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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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When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
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We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.
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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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Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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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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Purplish brown? Let's agree it / is a color so bad we all flee it / it has no good use / so let's name it Puce / from the sound we make when we see it.
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