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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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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 'profound truths' are just timely ideas.
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An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
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We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.
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Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.
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When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
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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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When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea.
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Many years ago, Clement Greenberg said, 'All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.' This should be updated now to 'All profoundly ugly work looks original at first.
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It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?
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Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
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When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.
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There is no best way to make art, but there are a lot of better ways.
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Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.
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You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.
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One needs to be right before getting righteous.
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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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The power of art is not in communication but effect what it does, not what it relates.
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No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism.
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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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