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Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.
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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Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.
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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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There's a big difference between grabbing attention and rewarding attention.
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Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
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Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.
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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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Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.
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Art is like a butterfly fluttering in a meadow. Analysis of art is like a butterfly on a pin. Each has its value, but we must always be aware of the difference, and what is gained or lost.
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There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.
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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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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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Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.
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