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Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.

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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
Painting
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Experience
Real
World
Illusion

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Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.
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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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Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.
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There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.
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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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Many years ago, Clement Greenberg said, 'All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.' This should be updated now to 'All profoundly ugly work looks original at first.
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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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There is no best way to make art, but there are a lot of better ways.
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The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing.
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We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.
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We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.
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Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas.
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Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
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Don't explain, enjoy.
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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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If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality.
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A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
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Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.
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Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
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