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Don't explain, enjoy.
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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Joy
Enjoy
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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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Art is not 'about.' Art is.
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Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.
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Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.
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Science is a matter of adjusting language to explain material reality. Art is a matter of adjusting material reality to create a sense of life.
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Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
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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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In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them.
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If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.
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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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Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.
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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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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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When you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable.
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Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.
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Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.
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A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
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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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Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
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Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.
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