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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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W. Darby Bannard
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Art is too popular. If plumbing was as popular as art is we would have amateur plumbers running around brandishing wrenches and Roto-Rooters, climbing in and out of sewers and writing gibberish about pipe systems. And none of our our toilets would work.
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Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.
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When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which echo processes in nature.
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Art is not 'about.' Art is.
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Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
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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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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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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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Of course I will look at anything, but I have not got the time or the patience to keep on looking at art that I know could be better. I don't want art that needs fixing, I want art that sends me back to the studio to fix my own.
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There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.
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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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Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to cover the loss of mystery.
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Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas.
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When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.
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When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.
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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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Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
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The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.
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One needs to be right before getting righteous.
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