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When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.

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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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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A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
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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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Power is like money. Some know how to get it few know how to use it.
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Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.
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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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It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?
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Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.
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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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The power of art is not in communication but effect what it does, not what it relates.
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Whether something is called art is beside the point. What counts is what happens when you ask it to actually be art.
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Art rides in on pleasure.
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Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.
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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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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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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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An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
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When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.
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Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.
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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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