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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
W. Darby Bannard
Walter Bannard
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Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.
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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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Many years ago, Clement Greenberg said, 'All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.' This should be updated now to 'All profoundly ugly work looks original at first.
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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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Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.
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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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Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.
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Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.
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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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When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble.
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Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.
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When anything goes, everything goes.
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Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
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A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
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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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Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.
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We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.
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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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In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them.
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When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.
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