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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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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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Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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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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The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.
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If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality.
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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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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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Most art is just surface noise.
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Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to cover the loss of mystery.
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Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.
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Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.
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Don't explain, enjoy.
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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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Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.
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Art is not 'about.' Art is.
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When you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable.
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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.
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Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
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