Walter Darby Bannard Quotes - Page 3

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• When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble.

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  Break, Rubble, Barriers

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• Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.

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  Art, Doe, Needs

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• An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.

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  Doors, Ivory Tower, Long

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• In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.

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  Art, Standards, Good And Bad

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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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  Hate, Struggle, Conformity

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• Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.

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  Art, Inspiration, Style

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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, Butterfly, Differences

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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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  Art, Writing, Attention

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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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  Art, Communication, Power

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• Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.

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  Perception, Analysis, Intuitive

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• When anyone can produce dreck or publish gibberish, and not only get away with it but be celebrated for it, the discipline is no longer a discipline, and it will get no respect.

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  Discipline, No Respect, Produce

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• The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.

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  Art, Culture, Criteria

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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, Years, Fifty

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• Of course I will look at anything, but I have not got the time or the patience to keep on looking at art that I know could be better. I don't want art that needs fixing, I want art that sends me back to the studio to fix my own.

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  Art, Needs, Looks

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• Most art is just surface noise.

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  Art, Criticism, Noise

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• Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.

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  Confidence, Assumption, Presumptuous

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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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  Color, Names, Sound

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• Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.

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  Art, People, Lucky

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• Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.

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  Art, Simple, Choices

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• Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.

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  Choices, Too Much, Constructive

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• One needs to be right before getting righteous.

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  Needs, Belief, Righteous

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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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  Ideas, Painting, Fresh Ideas

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• There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.

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  Art, Artist, Too Much

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• Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.

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  Art, Knowing, Something Better

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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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  Art, Writing, Advice

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