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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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When you write something new about science, other scientists may not like it but they pay attention because it is subject to proof. When you write something new about art, it is subject only to the reader's discomfort, and will probably be rejected.
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Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
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Talent is like a seed which needs fertile soil. There is no less talent now, there is less fertile soil to nourish it.
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We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.
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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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Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
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We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.
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Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.
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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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Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
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