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One needs to be right before getting righteous.
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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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 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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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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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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When you have made a good painting, don't do another like it, but remember the process, what you did, what you were thinking and feeling.
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Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.
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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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When anything goes, everything goes.
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Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas.
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Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us beyond language.
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Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.
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When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.
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Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to cover the loss of mystery.
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Truth is not always hard to find it is often staring you in the face. The problem with truth is that it is hard to believe. It is even harder to get other people to believe.
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When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.
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When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.
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We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.
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