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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
Walter Bannard
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Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.
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A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to 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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What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead, / green citrus fruit / upon my head.
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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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Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.
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It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?
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The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.
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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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Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.
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Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.
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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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Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.
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Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.
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Art rides in on pleasure.
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When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.
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Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.
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When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
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Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.
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