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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
Walter Bannard
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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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Of course I will look at anything, but I have not got the time or the patience to keep on looking at art that I know could be better. I don't want art that needs fixing, I want art that sends me back to the studio to fix my own.
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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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Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.
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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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Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.
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You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.
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Don't explain, enjoy.
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Power is like money. Some know how to get it few know how to use it.
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Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
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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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No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism.
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Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.
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We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.
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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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Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.
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Whether something is called art is beside the point. What counts is what happens when you ask it to actually be art.
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Most art is just surface noise.
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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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When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.
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