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Live to paint, don't paint to live.

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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
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An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
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Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
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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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Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.
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Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.
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In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.
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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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When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
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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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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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It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?
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Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
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There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.
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Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.
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Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.
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When anything goes, everything goes.
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In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them.
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Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.
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Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.
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Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.
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