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The power of art is not in communication but effect what it does, not what it relates.
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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Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.
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It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?
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Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas.
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Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.
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In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them.
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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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When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.
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Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.
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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
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Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.
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When anything goes, everything goes.
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Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.
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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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Science is a matter of adjusting language to explain material reality. Art is a matter of adjusting material reality to create a sense of life.
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Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.
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