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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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What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead, / green citrus fruit / upon my head.
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Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.
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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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Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.
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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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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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Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
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An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
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Art rides in on pleasure.
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Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.
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Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.
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When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.
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Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody inside.
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Don't explain, enjoy.
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One needs to be right before getting righteous.
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