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If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality.
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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A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.
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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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Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.
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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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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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The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.
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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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Most art is just surface noise.
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There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.
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Art rides in on pleasure.
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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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Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.
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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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Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.
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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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We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.
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One needs to be right before getting righteous.
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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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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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An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
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