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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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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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Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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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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The power of art is not in communication but effect what it does, not what it relates.
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When you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable.
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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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Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.
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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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You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.
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Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
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If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.
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There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.
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