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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.
Walter Darby Bannard
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Walter Darby Bannard
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: January 1
Died: 2016
Died: October 2
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New Haven
Connecticut
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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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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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Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.
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Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.
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Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best.
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Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody inside.
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Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas.
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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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An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
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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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Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
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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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Don't explain, enjoy.
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Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.
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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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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 you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable.
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Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.
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Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.
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When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.
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