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Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
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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Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.
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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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Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.
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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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There is no best way to make art, but there are a lot of better ways.
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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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When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble.
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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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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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Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.
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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them.
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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 you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.
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