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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
Painter
Printmaker
New Haven
Connecticut
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W. Darby Bannard
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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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Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.
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There's a big difference between grabbing attention and rewarding attention.
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The power of art is not in communication but effect what it does, not what it relates.
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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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One needs to be right before getting righteous.
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When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.
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Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.
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When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.
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The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.
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Stale artifacts of the past' are always 'active components of the present moment' when they are experienced in the present moment.
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Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.
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Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
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Of course I will look at anything, but I have not got the time or the patience to keep on looking at art that I know could be better. I don't want art that needs fixing, I want art that sends me back to the studio to fix my own.
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Art rides in on pleasure.
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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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Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.
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Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.
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Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.
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Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
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