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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
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Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us beyond language.
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A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
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If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.
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When anything goes, everything goes.
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Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
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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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Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.
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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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Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.
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Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.
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Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.
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Talent is like a seed which needs fertile soil. There is no less talent now, there is less fertile soil to nourish it.
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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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Most art is just surface noise.
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Don't explain, enjoy.
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