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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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When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble.
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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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Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.
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There is no best way to make art, but there are a lot of better ways.
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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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Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.
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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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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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Most art is just surface noise.
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A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.
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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
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When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.
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Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
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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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When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.
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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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Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.
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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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