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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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Next
Thing
Counts
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Art flows more easily when you are not thinking about what 'should' be in it or how it 'should' be done. The Impressionists taught us to look and see, not assume.
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When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which echo processes in nature.
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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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Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.
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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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Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.
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When anything goes, everything goes.
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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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Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.
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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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Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.
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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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Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
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Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas.
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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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Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
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Of course I will look at anything, but I have not got the time or the patience to keep on looking at art that I know could be better. I don't want art that needs fixing, I want art that sends me back to the studio to fix my own.
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A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
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Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.
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Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.
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