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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.
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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Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.
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Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.
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When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble.
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Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.
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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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Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.
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Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.
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Art is not 'about.' Art is.
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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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Don't explain, enjoy.
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When anything goes, everything goes.
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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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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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