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When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.
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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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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Of course I will look at anything, but I have not got the time or the patience to keep on looking at art that I know could be better. I don't want art that needs fixing, I want art that sends me back to the studio to fix my own.
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Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
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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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Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.
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