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When you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable.

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
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W. Darby Bannard
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Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.
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Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make 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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In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.
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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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Purplish brown? Let's agree it / is a color so bad we all flee it / it has no good use / so let's name it Puce / from the sound we make when we see it.
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There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.
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Art is like a butterfly fluttering in a meadow. Analysis of art is like a butterfly on a pin. Each has its value, but we must always be aware of the difference, and what is gained or lost.
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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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Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
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