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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
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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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Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
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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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When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.
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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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Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.
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Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.
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Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas.
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Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.
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When anyone can produce dreck or publish gibberish, and not only get away with it but be celebrated for it, the discipline is no longer a discipline, and it will get no respect.
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An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
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Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.
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Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
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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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Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody inside.
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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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