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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.
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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Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.
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Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.
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Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.
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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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When anything goes, everything goes.
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A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
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When you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable.
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Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.
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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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Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.
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When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble.
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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 good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea.
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Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.
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