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Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas.
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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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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The struggle to be original hates conformity, but the struggle to be better disregards it, or takes advantage of it to build workable conventions.
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Art is there for nourishment, not explication.
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Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.
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When anything goes, everything goes.
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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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When you have made a good painting, don't do another like it, but remember the process, what you did, what you were thinking and feeling.
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Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.
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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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When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble.
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When anyone can produce dreck or publish gibberish, and not only get away with it but be celebrated for it, the discipline is no longer a discipline, and it will get no respect.
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Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.
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In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them.
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There's a big difference between grabbing attention and rewarding attention.
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One needs to be right before getting righteous.
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Don't explain, enjoy.
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Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.
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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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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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When you write something new about science, other scientists may not like it but they pay attention because it is subject to proof. When you write something new about art, it is subject only to the reader's discomfort, and will probably be rejected.
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