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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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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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Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.
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Art rides in on pleasure.
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When you have made a good painting, don't do another like it, but remember the process, what you did, what you were thinking and feeling.
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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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When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble.
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Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.
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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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Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.
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Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.
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Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.
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One needs to be right before getting righteous.
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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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Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.
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A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.
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We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.
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