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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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W. Darby Bannard
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If we see an object as a bowl, it may inhibit seeing it as craft, just as seeing it as craft might inhibit seeing it as art. See first name later.
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Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.
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An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
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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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No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism.
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When anything goes, everything goes.
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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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Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.
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Power is like money. Some know how to get it few know how to use it.
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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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Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.
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A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
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Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
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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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Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.
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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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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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There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.
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When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.
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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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