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When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
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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Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.
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Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.
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Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.
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An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
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When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.
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Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.
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Science is a matter of adjusting language to explain material reality. Art is a matter of adjusting material reality to create a sense of life.
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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 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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Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.
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The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.
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