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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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When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape 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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Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.
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When you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable.
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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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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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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.
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If we see an object as a bowl, it may inhibit seeing it as craft, just as seeing it as craft might inhibit seeing it as art. See first name later.
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Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.
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Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.
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Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.
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Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to cover the loss of mystery.
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Art is not 'about.' Art is.
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A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
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In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them.
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When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
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Art is there for nourishment, not explication.
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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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The power of art is not in communication but effect what it does, not what it relates.
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