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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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Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.
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There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.
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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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Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.
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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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There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.
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Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.
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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 can be art, art is not much of anything.
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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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Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
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Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.
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Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.
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Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
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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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Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.
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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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Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.
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If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.
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A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
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