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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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The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.
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Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.
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A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
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When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.
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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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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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An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
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We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.
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Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.
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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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Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.
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Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.
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Talent is like a seed which needs fertile soil. There is no less talent now, there is less fertile soil to nourish it.
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Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.
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Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.
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The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.
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Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.
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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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Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.
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