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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
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Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.
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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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Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.
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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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The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.
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If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality.
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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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Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.
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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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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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Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.
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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 that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.
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Many years ago, Clement Greenberg said, 'All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.' This should be updated now to 'All profoundly ugly work looks original at first.
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When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.
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Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.
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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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When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble.
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Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.
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When you have made a good painting, don't do another like it, but remember the process, what you did, what you were thinking and feeling.
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