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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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Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.
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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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When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.
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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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The struggle to be original hates conformity, but the struggle to be better disregards it, or takes advantage of it to build workable conventions.
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Art is there for nourishment, not explication.
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Many years ago, Clement Greenberg said, 'All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.' This should be updated now to 'All profoundly ugly work looks original at first.
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Art rides in on 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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If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.
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When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.
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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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There's a big difference between grabbing attention and rewarding attention.
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Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.
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Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.
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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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