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Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.
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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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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Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.
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Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.
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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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Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.
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Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
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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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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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If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.
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Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.
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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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When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea.
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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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It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?
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An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
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Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.
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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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If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality.
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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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Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.
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