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Art rides in on pleasure.

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
Art
Rides
Pleasure

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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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Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.
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There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.
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Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.
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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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Art is there for nourishment, not explication.
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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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Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.
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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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You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.
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Don't explain, enjoy.
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Art is like a butterfly fluttering in a meadow. Analysis of art is like a butterfly on a pin. Each has its value, but we must always be aware of the difference, and what is gained or lost.
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We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.
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There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.
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We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.
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A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
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Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.
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One needs to be right before getting righteous.
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Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.
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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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