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Live to paint, don't paint to live.

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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 anything can be art, art is not much of anything.
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Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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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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A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.
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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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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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When you write something new about science, other scientists may not like it but they pay attention because it is subject to proof. When you write something new about art, it is subject only to the reader's discomfort, and will probably be rejected.
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One needs to be right before getting righteous.
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Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
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Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.
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The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.
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Most art is just surface noise.
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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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Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.
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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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You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.
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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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Talent is like a seed which needs fertile soil. There is no less talent now, there is less fertile soil to nourish it.
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Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.
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Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.
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