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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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We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.
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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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If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.
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Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.
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Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.
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A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
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Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
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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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Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.
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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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Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.
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Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
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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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The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.
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Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.
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Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas.
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Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.
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