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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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When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.
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What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead, / green citrus fruit / upon my head.
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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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Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.
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When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.
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Art flows more easily when you are not thinking about what 'should' be in it or how it 'should' be done. The Impressionists taught us to look and see, not assume.
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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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Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.
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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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Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
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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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A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.
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Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.
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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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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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Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.
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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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