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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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When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which echo processes in nature.
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If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality.
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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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Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.
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Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
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Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.
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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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If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.
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In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.
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Most art is just surface noise.
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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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Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates 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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One needs to be right before getting righteous.
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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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There is no best way to make art, but there are a lot of better ways.
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Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
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Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us beyond language.
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Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.
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The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.
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