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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 that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.
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Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.
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Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.
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Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.
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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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Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.
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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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When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
Walter Darby Bannard
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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It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?
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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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Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.
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Art is not 'about.' Art is.
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You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.
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Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
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Art is there for nourishment, not explication.
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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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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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Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.
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Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
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