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Art is not 'about.' Art is.

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
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W. Darby Bannard
Walter Bannard
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When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.
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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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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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Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.
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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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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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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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When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.
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We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.
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Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.
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Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
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Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.
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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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A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
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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 good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea.
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Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
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A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.
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Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.
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