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Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.

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
Always
Precede
Intuitive
Analysis
Perception

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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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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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Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.
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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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When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.
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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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The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing.
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Art is too popular. If plumbing was as popular as art is we would have amateur plumbers running around brandishing wrenches and Roto-Rooters, climbing in and out of sewers and writing gibberish about pipe systems. And none of our our toilets would work.
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An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
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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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Art is not 'about.' Art is.
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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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If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality.
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Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.
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Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.
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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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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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Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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