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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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We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.
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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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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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Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
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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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In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them.
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Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
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Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.
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When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.
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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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Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.
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To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from the past when we see it freshly.
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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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Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.
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When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.
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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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An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
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Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.
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Art rides in on pleasure.
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The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.
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