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Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.
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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There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.
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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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There's a big difference between grabbing attention and rewarding attention.
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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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Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
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When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
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Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.
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We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.
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Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.
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You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.
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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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Purplish brown? Let's agree it / is a color so bad we all flee it / it has no good use / so let's name it Puce / from the sound we make when we see it.
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Power is like money. Some know how to get it few know how to use it.
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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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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 is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.
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Art is there for nourishment, not explication.
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