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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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Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.
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When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.
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Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.
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Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.
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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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Power is like money. Some know how to get it few know how to use it.
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One needs to be right before getting righteous.
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Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
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Most art is just surface noise.
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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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When anyone can produce dreck or publish gibberish, and not only get away with it but be celebrated for it, the discipline is no longer a discipline, and it will get no respect.
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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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An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
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You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.
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Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.
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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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Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.
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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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In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them.
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