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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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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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Art is there for nourishment, not explication.
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Stale artifacts of the past' are always 'active components of the present moment' when they are experienced in the present moment.
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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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Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody inside.
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Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us beyond language.
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Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best.
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Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.
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Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.
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Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
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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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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 flows more easily when you are not thinking about what 'should' be in it or how it 'should' be done. The Impressionists taught us to look and see, not assume.
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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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If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.
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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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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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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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When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.
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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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