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You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.
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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When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which echo processes in nature.
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Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
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When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.
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Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.
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Don't explain, enjoy.
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Art is not 'about.' Art is.
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One needs to be right before getting righteous.
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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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Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.
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Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.
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Art rides in on pleasure.
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Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.
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Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.
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Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.
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When you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable.
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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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When anything goes, everything goes.
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When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.
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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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The power of art is not in communication but effect what it does, not what it relates.
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