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Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
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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Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
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The power of art is not in communication but effect what it does, not what it relates.
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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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In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them.
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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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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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Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to cover the loss of mystery.
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When you have made a good painting, don't do another like it, but remember the process, what you did, what you were thinking and feeling.
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Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.
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Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.
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What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead, / green citrus fruit / upon my head.
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When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.
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There is no best way to make art, but there are a lot of better ways.
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Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
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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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Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.
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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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Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.
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When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.
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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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