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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
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Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us beyond language.
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Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.
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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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When you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable.
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Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
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When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which echo processes in nature.
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One needs to be right before getting righteous.
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Don't explain, enjoy.
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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 Modernism with Alzheimer's.
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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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Stale artifacts of the past' are always 'active components of the present moment' when they are experienced in the present moment.
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When anything goes, everything goes.
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Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.
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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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Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.
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Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.
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Most art is just surface noise.
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There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.
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