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Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.
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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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.
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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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Art rides in on pleasure.
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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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The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.
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Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.
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Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
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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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There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.
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We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.
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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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Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
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Talent is like a seed which needs fertile soil. There is no less talent now, there is less fertile soil to nourish it.
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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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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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Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
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