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Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas.
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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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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Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.
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Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.
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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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A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
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Art is not 'about.' Art is.
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When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble.
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The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing.
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Science is a matter of adjusting language to explain material reality. Art is a matter of adjusting material reality to create a sense of life.
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When you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable.
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The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.
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Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.
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Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.
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Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.
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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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Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.
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Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.
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Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.
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Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us beyond language.
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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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