Walter Darby Bannard Quotes - Page 2

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• Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.

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  Art, Freedom, Character

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• A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.

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  Eye, Critics, Harem

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• Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.

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  Artist, Way, Needs

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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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  Artist, Sublime, Green

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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, Ideas, Quality

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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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  Running, Art, Writing

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• Whether something is called art is beside the point. What counts is what happens when you ask it to actually be art.

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  Art, Art Is, Happens

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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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  Art, Boredom, Wheels

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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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  Art, Privilege, May

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• Art rides in on pleasure.

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  Art, Pleasure

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• Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.

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  Art, Ideas, Burden

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• Art is there for nourishment, not explication.

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  Art, Satisfaction, Art Is

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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, Mistake, Way

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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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  Art, Apples, Would Be

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• Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.

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  Imagination, Conventions, Release

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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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• 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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• 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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• We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.

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  Experience, Pleasure, Explanation

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• Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.

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  Art, Expression, Play

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• When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.

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  Fashion, Trends, Imitation

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• Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.

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  Hope, Art, Trying

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• When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea.

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  Ideas, Faults, Use

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• To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from the past when we see it freshly.

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  Art, Past, Yesterday

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