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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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Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.
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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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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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Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.
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When you write something new about science, other scientists may not like it but they pay attention because it is subject to proof. When you write something new about art, it is subject only to the reader's discomfort, and will probably be rejected.
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If we see an object as a bowl, it may inhibit seeing it as craft, just as seeing it as craft might inhibit seeing it as art. See first name later.
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Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.
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When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.
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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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Truth is not always hard to find it is often staring you in the face. The problem with truth is that it is hard to believe. It is even harder to get other people to believe.
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Don't explain, enjoy.
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