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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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To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from the past when we see it freshly.
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Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.
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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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You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.
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When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.
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Most art is just surface noise.
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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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One needs to be right before getting righteous.
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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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A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.
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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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