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We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.
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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When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea.
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Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.
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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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Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.
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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 anything goes, everything goes.
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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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There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.
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Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.
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Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.
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Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.
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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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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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You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.
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When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which echo processes in nature.
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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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When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble.
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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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In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them.
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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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