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Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.

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
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W. Darby Bannard
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Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.
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Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.
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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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Art is too popular. If plumbing was as popular as art is we would have amateur plumbers running around brandishing wrenches and Roto-Rooters, climbing in and out of sewers and writing gibberish about pipe systems. And none of our our toilets would work.
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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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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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The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.
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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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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 is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.
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When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble.
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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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An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
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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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Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.
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Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.
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When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
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When you write something new about science, other scientists may not like it but they pay attention because it is subject to proof. When you write something new about art, it is subject only to the reader's discomfort, and will probably be rejected.
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