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Power is like money. Some know how to get it few know how to use it.
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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Don't explain, enjoy.
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Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us beyond language.
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Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
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Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas.
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Science is a matter of adjusting language to explain material reality. Art is a matter of adjusting material reality to create a sense of life.
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There is no best way to make art, but there are a lot of better ways.
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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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Truth is not always hard to find it is often staring you in the face. The problem with truth is that it is hard to believe. It is even harder to get other people to believe.
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You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.
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Art rides in on pleasure.
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Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
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Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.
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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 that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.
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Art flows more easily when you are not thinking about what 'should' be in it or how it 'should' be done. The Impressionists taught us to look and see, not assume.
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A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
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Art is not 'about.' Art is.
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There's a big difference between grabbing attention and rewarding attention.
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The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.
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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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