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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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More quotes by Walter Darby Bannard
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.
Walter Darby Bannard
Art flows more easily when you are not thinking about what 'should' be in it or how it 'should' be done. The Impressionists taught us to look and see, not assume.
Walter Darby Bannard
Live to paint, don't paint to live.
Walter Darby Bannard
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.
Walter Darby Bannard
When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea.
Walter Darby Bannard
Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best.
Walter Darby Bannard
In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them.
Walter Darby Bannard
A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.
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Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.
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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.
Walter Darby Bannard
Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
Walter Darby Bannard
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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When anything goes, everything goes.
Walter Darby Bannard
Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.
Walter Darby Bannard
In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.
Walter Darby Bannard
An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
Walter Darby Bannard
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.
Walter Darby Bannard
There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.
Walter Darby Bannard
We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.
Walter Darby Bannard
