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Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.
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
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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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Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to cover the loss of mystery.
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You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.
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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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Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.
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Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.
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The power of art is not in communication but effect what it does, not what it relates.
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Art rides in on pleasure.
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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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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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Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.
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One needs to be right before getting righteous.
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When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
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When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.
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Power is like money. Some know how to get it few know how to use it.
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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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Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
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Art is too popular. If plumbing was as popular as art is we would have amateur plumbers running around brandishing wrenches and Roto-Rooters, climbing in and out of sewers and writing gibberish about pipe systems. And none of our our toilets would work.
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Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.
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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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