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We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.
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
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Don't explain, enjoy.
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Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
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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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In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.
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When anything goes, everything goes.
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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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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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When you write something new about science, other scientists may not like it but they pay attention because it is subject to proof. When you write something new about art, it is subject only to the reader's discomfort, and will probably be rejected.
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