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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
Walter Bannard
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When anything goes, everything goes.
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Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
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When anyone can produce dreck or publish gibberish, and not only get away with it but be celebrated for it, the discipline is no longer a discipline, and it will get no respect.
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Of course I will look at anything, but I have not got the time or the patience to keep on looking at art that I know could be better. I don't want art that needs fixing, I want art that sends me back to the studio to fix my own.
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We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.
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Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.
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When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.
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When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea.
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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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The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.
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Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.
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When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
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Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.
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Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.
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Art is there for nourishment, not explication.
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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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Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.
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Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.
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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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It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?
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