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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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Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.
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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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Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.
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Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
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Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
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Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.
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Art is there for nourishment, not explication.
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When anyone can produce dreck or publish gibberish, and not only get away with it but be celebrated for it, the discipline is no longer a discipline, and it will get no respect.
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Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best.
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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 is too popular. If plumbing was as popular as art is we would have amateur plumbers running around brandishing wrenches and Roto-Rooters, climbing in and out of sewers and writing gibberish about pipe systems. And none of our our toilets would work.
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Art is like a butterfly fluttering in a meadow. Analysis of art is like a butterfly on a pin. Each has its value, but we must always be aware of the difference, and what is gained or lost.
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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.
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Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.
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Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.
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Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.
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Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.
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Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
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We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.
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