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Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.
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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Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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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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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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When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.
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Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
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When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea.
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Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.
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Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.
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Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.
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Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.
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Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.
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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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Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
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