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Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.
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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The struggle to be original hates conformity, but the struggle to be better disregards it, or takes advantage of it to build workable conventions.
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Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
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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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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 make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable.
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Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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Art rides in on pleasure.
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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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Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.
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We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.
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An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
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When anything goes, everything goes.
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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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Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
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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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Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.
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There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.
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Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.
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You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.
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