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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
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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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Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.
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Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.
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What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead, / green citrus fruit / upon my head.
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Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.
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When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.
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When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.
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There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.
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Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.
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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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When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea.
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Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.
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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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Power is like money. Some know how to get it few know how to use it.
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When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.
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There is no best way to make art, but there are a lot of better ways.
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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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Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
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Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas.
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Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.
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