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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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Complete
Freedom
Art
Character
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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.
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Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.
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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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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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Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.
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Art rides in on pleasure.
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Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.
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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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We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.
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Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.
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One needs to be right before getting righteous.
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Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.
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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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The power of art is not in communication but effect what it does, not what it relates.
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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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The struggle to be original hates conformity, but the struggle to be better disregards it, or takes advantage of it to build workable conventions.
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A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
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It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?
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When anyone can produce dreck or publish gibberish, and not only get away with it but be celebrated for it, the discipline is no longer a discipline, and it will get no respect.
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