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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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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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To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from the past when we see it freshly.
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Truth is not always hard to find it is often staring you in the face. The problem with truth is that it is hard to believe. It is even harder to get other people to believe.
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Art is not 'about.' Art is.
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Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.
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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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There's a big difference between grabbing attention and rewarding attention.
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Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.
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Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.
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Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.
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Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.
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When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
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Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.
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Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.
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A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
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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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There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.
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Most art is just surface noise.
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When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.
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