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Power is like money. Some know how to get it few know how to use it.
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
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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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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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Many years ago, Clement Greenberg said, 'All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.' This should be updated now to 'All profoundly ugly work looks original at first.
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If we see an object as a bowl, it may inhibit seeing it as craft, just as seeing it as craft might inhibit seeing it as art. See first name later.
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Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
Walter Darby Bannard
Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.
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The struggle to be original hates conformity, but the struggle to be better disregards it, or takes advantage of it to build workable conventions.
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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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Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.
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Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
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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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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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Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.
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When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.
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Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.
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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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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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There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.
Walter Darby Bannard
Art is there for nourishment, not explication.
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Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.
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