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Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.
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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Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.
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Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.
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Art is there for nourishment, not explication.
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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.
Walter Darby Bannard
Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.
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Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.
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When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which echo processes in nature.
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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Purplish brown? Let's agree it / is a color so bad we all flee it / it has no good use / so let's name it Puce / from the sound we make when we see it.
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Art is not 'about.' Art is.
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Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.
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Most art is just surface noise.
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If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.
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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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Truth is not always hard to find it is often staring you in the face. The problem with truth is that it is hard to believe. It is even harder to get other people to believe.
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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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When you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable.
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No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism.
Walter Darby Bannard
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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The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.
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