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There is no best way to make art, but there are a lot of better ways.
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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Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.
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Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody inside.
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When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.
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Art is too popular. If plumbing was as popular as art is we would have amateur plumbers running around brandishing wrenches and Roto-Rooters, climbing in and out of sewers and writing gibberish about pipe systems. And none of our our toilets would work.
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Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.
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Art is not 'about.' Art is.
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Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
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When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.
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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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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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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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The power of art is not in communication but effect what it does, not what it relates.
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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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Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
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When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.
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When you have made a good painting, don't do another like it, but remember the process, what you did, what you were thinking and feeling.
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You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.
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When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.
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Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
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The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.
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