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Talent is like a seed which needs fertile soil. There is no less talent now, there is less fertile soil to nourish it.
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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Art is too popular. If plumbing was as popular as art is we would have amateur plumbers running around brandishing wrenches and Roto-Rooters, climbing in and out of sewers and writing gibberish about pipe systems. And none of our our toilets would work.
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Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.
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Art rides in on pleasure.
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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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Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.
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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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Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
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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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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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Don't explain, enjoy.
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Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
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Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.
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Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.
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You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.
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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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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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We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.
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Stale artifacts of the past' are always 'active components of the present moment' when they are experienced in the present moment.
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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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