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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
Complete
Freedom
Art
Character
Much
Reveals

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Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.
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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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Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.
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When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble.
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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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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.
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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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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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Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.
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When you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable.
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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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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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To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from the past when we see it freshly.
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Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.
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