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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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Talent is like a seed which needs fertile soil. There is no less talent now, there is less fertile soil to nourish it.
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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 as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them.
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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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Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.
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One needs to be right before getting righteous.
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Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.
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There's a big difference between grabbing attention and rewarding attention.
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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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Purplish brown? Let's agree it / is a color so bad we all flee it / it has no good use / so let's name it Puce / from the sound we make when we see it.
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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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Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.
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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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Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.
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We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.
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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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Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.
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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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An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
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