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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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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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Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.
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Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
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Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.
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Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.
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Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.
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Of course I will look at anything, but I have not got the time or the patience to keep on looking at art that I know could be better. I don't want art that needs fixing, I want art that sends me back to the studio to fix my own.
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Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.
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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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There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.
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The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.
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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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