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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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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The power of art is not in communication but effect what it does, not what it relates.
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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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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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When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.
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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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Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.
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Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.
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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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The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.
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Truth is not always hard to find it is often staring you in the face. The problem with truth is that it is hard to believe. It is even harder to get other people to believe.
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When you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable.
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Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.
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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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Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.
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Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.
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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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Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
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When you write something new about science, other scientists may not like it but they pay attention because it is subject to proof. When you write something new about art, it is subject only to the reader's discomfort, and will probably be rejected.
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When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
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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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