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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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
Darby Bannard
W. Darby Bannard
Walter Bannard
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Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.
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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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There is no best way to make art, but there are a lot of better ways.
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Most art is just surface noise.
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When anyone can produce dreck or publish gibberish, and not only get away with it but be celebrated for it, the discipline is no longer a discipline, and it will get no respect.
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Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.
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Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
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When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea.
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Stale artifacts of the past' are always 'active components of the present moment' when they are experienced in the present moment.
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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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In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them.
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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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Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.
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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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Art flows more easily when you are not thinking about what 'should' be in it or how it 'should' be done. The Impressionists taught us to look and see, not assume.
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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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Art is not 'about.' Art is.
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Art is like a butterfly fluttering in a meadow. Analysis of art is like a butterfly on a pin. Each has its value, but we must always be aware of the difference, and what is gained or lost.
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There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.
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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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