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Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.
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
Darby Bannard
W. Darby Bannard
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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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Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.
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Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.
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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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Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.
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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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Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.
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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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When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.
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