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The power of art is not in communication but effect what it does, not what it relates.
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
Walter Bannard
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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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Don't explain, enjoy.
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In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.
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Purplish brown? Let's agree it / is a color so bad we all flee it / it has no good use / so let's name it Puce / from the sound we make when we see it.
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When you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable.
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Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.
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Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best.
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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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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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When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.
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Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.
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Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.
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Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.
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Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.
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Power is like money. Some know how to get it few know how to use it.
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