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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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Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.
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The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing.
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Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.
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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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Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.
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Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.
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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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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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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 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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Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.
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Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.
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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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Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.
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When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.
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When anything goes, everything goes.
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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 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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Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.
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Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.
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