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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
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Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas.
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Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.
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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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Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.
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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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There is no best way to make art, but there are a lot of better ways.
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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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The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.
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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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A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
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Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
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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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When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.
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When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.
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Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.
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Power is like money. Some know how to get it few know how to use it.
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Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.
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There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.
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Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.
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