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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.
Walter Darby Bannard
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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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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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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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It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?
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Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.
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Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody inside.
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If we see an object as a bowl, it may inhibit seeing it as craft, just as seeing it as craft might inhibit seeing it as art. See first name later.
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There is no best way to make art, but there are a lot of better ways.
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If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.
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Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.
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The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.
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Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
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Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.
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Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas.
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Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.
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Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.
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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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Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.
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