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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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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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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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The power of art is not in communication but effect what it does, not what it relates.
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The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.
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We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.
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Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.
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Art rides in on pleasure.
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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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There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.
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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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Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.
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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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Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.
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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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Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us beyond language.
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There's a big difference between grabbing attention and rewarding attention.
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Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.
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Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
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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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Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.
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