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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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The power of art is not in communication but effect what it does, not what it relates.
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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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Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.
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You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.
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Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.
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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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Most art is just surface noise.
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Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.
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When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
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If we see an object as a bowl, it may inhibit seeing it as craft, just as seeing it as craft might inhibit seeing it as art. See first name later.
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Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.
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Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.
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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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When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.
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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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Art is like a butterfly fluttering in a meadow. Analysis of art is like a butterfly on a pin. Each has its value, but we must always be aware of the difference, and what is gained or lost.
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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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It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?
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Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.
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