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Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.
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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Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.
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One needs to be right before getting righteous.
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Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
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Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.
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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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Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.
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Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.
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Art is like a butterfly fluttering in a meadow. Analysis of art is like a butterfly on a pin. Each has its value, but we must always be aware of the difference, and what is gained or lost.
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Art flows more easily when you are not thinking about what 'should' be in it or how it 'should' be done. The Impressionists taught us to look and see, not assume.
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Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody inside.
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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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Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.
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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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Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.
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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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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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Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us beyond language.
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When you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable.
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Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.
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