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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
Darby Bannard
W. Darby Bannard
Walter Bannard
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The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing.
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There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.
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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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If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality.
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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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A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
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Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
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There's a big difference between grabbing attention and rewarding attention.
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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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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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The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.
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Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.
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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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We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.
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Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
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When you write something new about science, other scientists may not like it but they pay attention because it is subject to proof. When you write something new about art, it is subject only to the reader's discomfort, and will probably be rejected.
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When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.
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One needs to be right before getting righteous.
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Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.
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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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