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There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.
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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Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.
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Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.
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Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
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Art rides in on pleasure.
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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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When you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable.
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Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.
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Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
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Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.
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We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.
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There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.
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When anyone can produce dreck or publish gibberish, and not only get away with it but be celebrated for it, the discipline is no longer a discipline, and it will get no respect.
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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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Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to cover the loss of mystery.
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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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Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
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When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.
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Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas.
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Art flows more easily when you are not thinking about what 'should' be in it or how it 'should' be done. The Impressionists taught us to look and see, not assume.
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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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