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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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Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.
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Whether something is called art is beside the point. What counts is what happens when you ask it to actually be art.
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Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.
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Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
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You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.
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In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them.
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One needs to be right before getting righteous.
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In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.
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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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Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.
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Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.
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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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If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.
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When you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable.
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We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.
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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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An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
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Most art is just surface noise.
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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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