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Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas.

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Walter Darby Bannard
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: January 1
Died: 2016
Died: October 2
Painter
Printmaker
New Haven
Connecticut
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W. Darby Bannard
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One needs to be right before getting righteous.
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Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.
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It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?
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When you have made a good painting, don't do another like it, but remember the process, what you did, what you were thinking and feeling.
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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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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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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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Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.
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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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Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.
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Art is like a butterfly fluttering in a meadow. Analysis of art is like a butterfly on a pin. Each has its value, but we must always be aware of the difference, and what is gained or lost.
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Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.
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Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
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We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.
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