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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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If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.
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When you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable.
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Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.
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When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.
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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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Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas.
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Art rides in on pleasure.
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Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
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Purplish brown? Let's agree it / is a color so bad we all flee it / it has no good use / so let's name it Puce / from the sound we make when we see 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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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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Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
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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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A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
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Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.
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When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
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