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Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.
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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Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
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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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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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When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.
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Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.
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Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.
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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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Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.
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You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.
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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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There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.
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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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Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas.
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One needs to be right before getting righteous.
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Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
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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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Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.
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Don't explain, enjoy.
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Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.
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