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Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.
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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Whether something is called art is beside the point. What counts is what happens when you ask it to actually be art.
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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.
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Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
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Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.
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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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The power of art is not in communication but effect what it does, not what it relates.
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Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
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When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.
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Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.
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It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?
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Most art is just surface noise.
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Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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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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Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.
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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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Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.
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Purplish brown? Let's agree it / is a color so bad we all flee it / it has no good use / so let's name it Puce / from the sound we make when we see it.
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Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
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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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Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
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