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There's a big difference between grabbing attention and rewarding attention.
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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Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.
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Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.
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A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.
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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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Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
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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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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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It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me 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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Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.
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Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.
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When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.
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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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If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality.
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If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.
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Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.
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