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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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Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.
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When you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable.
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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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Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.
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Art rides in on pleasure.
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Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.
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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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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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Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.
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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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Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
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Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.
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Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
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When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.
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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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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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When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.
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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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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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