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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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Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.
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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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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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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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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 makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.
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When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.
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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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Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.
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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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Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
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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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The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing.
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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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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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Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.
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Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us beyond language.
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Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.
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Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.
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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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