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Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.

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
Darby Bannard
W. Darby Bannard
Walter Bannard
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Invents
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Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.
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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.
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When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble.
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Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody inside.
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When you have made a good painting, don't do another like it, but remember the process, what you did, what you were thinking and feeling.
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Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best.
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The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.
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Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas.
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Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.
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There is no best way to make art, but there are a lot of better ways.
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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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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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A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
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The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.
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When anything goes, everything goes.
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