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Walter Darby Bannard
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: January 1
Died: 2016
Died: October 2
Painter
Printmaker
New Haven
Connecticut
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Walter Bannard
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Art flows more easily when you are not thinking about what 'should' be in it or how it 'should' be done. The Impressionists taught us to look and see, not assume.
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There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.
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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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Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.
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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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Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
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Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.
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When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.
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Art is there for nourishment, not explication.
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Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas.
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Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.
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Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.
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Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
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We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.
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Of course I will look at anything, but I have not got the time or the patience to keep on looking at art that I know could be better. I don't want art that needs fixing, I want art that sends me back to the studio to fix my own.
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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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Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.
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Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.
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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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