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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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When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.
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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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You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.
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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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Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
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When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.
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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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In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them.
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When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.
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Art is there for nourishment, not explication.
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Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.
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Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.
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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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The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing.
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When anything goes, everything goes.
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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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Truth is not always hard to find it is often staring you in the face. The problem with truth is that it is hard to believe. It is even harder to get other people to believe.
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Whether something is called art is beside the point. What counts is what happens when you ask it to actually be art.
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When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
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