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Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
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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Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.
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Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
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An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
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Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.
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Most art is just surface noise.
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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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When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.
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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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Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.
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Art is too popular. If plumbing was as popular as art is we would have amateur plumbers running around brandishing wrenches and Roto-Rooters, climbing in and out of sewers and writing gibberish about pipe systems. And none of our our toilets would work.
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Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
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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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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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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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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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It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?
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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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