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Science is a matter of adjusting language to explain material reality. Art is a matter of adjusting material reality to create a sense of life.
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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Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.
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The struggle to be original hates conformity, but the struggle to be better disregards it, or takes advantage of it to build workable conventions.
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The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.
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Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.
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Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.
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Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
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Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.
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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 good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea.
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Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.
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Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.
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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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An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
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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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Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.
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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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Many years ago, Clement Greenberg said, 'All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.' This should be updated now to 'All profoundly ugly work looks original at first.
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Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.
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Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality.
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