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Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best.
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
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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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Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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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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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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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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When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.
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Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.
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Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.
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