Walter Darby Bannard Quotes
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The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing.
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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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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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In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them.
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Art rides in on pleasure.
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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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Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.
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Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.
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Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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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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You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.
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Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.
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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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Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.
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Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.
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There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much 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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One needs to be right before getting righteous.
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When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.
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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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When you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable.
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Talent is like a seed which needs fertile soil. There is no less talent now, there is less fertile soil to nourish it.
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Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.
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Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.
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The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.
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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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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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Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to cover the loss of mystery.
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Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.
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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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