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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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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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When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.
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Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.
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Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.
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Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.
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Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
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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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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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There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.
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Art is like a butterfly fluttering in a meadow. Analysis of art is like a butterfly on a pin. Each has its value, but we must always be aware of the difference, and what is gained or lost.
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No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism.
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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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When anything goes, everything goes.
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Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas.
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One needs to be right before getting righteous.
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There's a big difference between grabbing attention and rewarding attention.
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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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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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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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