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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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Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.
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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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The struggle to be original hates conformity, but the struggle to be better disregards it, or takes advantage of it to build workable conventions.
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If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality.
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If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.
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Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.
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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 you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable.
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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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Art is there for nourishment, not explication.
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There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.
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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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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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Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.
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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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Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make 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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Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.
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