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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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We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.
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What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead, / green citrus fruit / upon my head.
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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 new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.
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Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.
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Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.
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Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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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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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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In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.
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Don't explain, enjoy.
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Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.
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Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.
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Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody inside.
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Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.
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When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble.
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Art is there for nourishment, not explication.
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You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.
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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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Power is like money. Some know how to get it few know how to use it.
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