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Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.
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
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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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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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Most art is just surface noise.
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Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.
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Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas.
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Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.
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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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Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
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Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.
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Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.
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Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.
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Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.
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Power is like money. Some know how to get it few know how to use it.
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Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.
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Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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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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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.
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Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.
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Art is not 'about.' Art is.
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