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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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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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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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Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.
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When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble.
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To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from the past when we see it freshly.
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Talent is like a seed which needs fertile soil. There is no less talent now, there is less fertile soil to nourish it.
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The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.
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Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.
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Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.
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Don't explain, enjoy.
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Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.
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