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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
Explain
Joy
Enjoy

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Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
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Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.
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Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.
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Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.
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One needs to be right before getting righteous.
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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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There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.
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Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.
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When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.
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An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
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There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.
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Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.
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A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.
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No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism.
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Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.
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In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them.
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When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
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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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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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