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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
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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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Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.
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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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Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.
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Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.
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Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.
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The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.
Walter Darby Bannard
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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Art is there for nourishment, not explication.
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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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Whether something is called art is beside the point. What counts is what happens when you ask it to actually be art.
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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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Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.
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If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality.
Walter Darby Bannard
Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.
Walter Darby Bannard
Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best.
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Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.
Walter Darby Bannard
Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.
Walter Darby Bannard
Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
Walter Darby Bannard
Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.
Walter Darby Bannard
