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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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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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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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Power is like money. Some know how to get it few know how to use it.
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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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If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.
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Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.
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