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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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Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
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Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.
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Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
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Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.
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Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.
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Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.
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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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Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.
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When you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable.
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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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Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.
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Don't explain, enjoy.
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Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.
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Talent is like a seed which needs fertile soil. There is no less talent now, there is less fertile soil to nourish it.
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When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.
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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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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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There is no best way to make art, but there are a lot of better ways.
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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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