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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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Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.
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In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.
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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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Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.
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Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody inside.
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Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.
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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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The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.
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An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
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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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Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.
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Purplish brown? Let's agree it / is a color so bad we all flee it / it has no good use / so let's name it Puce / from the sound we make when we see it.
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Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
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When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.
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Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
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If we see an object as a bowl, it may inhibit seeing it as craft, just as seeing it as craft might inhibit seeing it as art. See first name later.
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Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
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Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
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Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.
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You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.
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