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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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It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?
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Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
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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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Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
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Art is not 'about.' Art is.
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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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If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality.
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Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to cover the loss of mystery.
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When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.
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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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When anything goes, everything goes.
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The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.
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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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Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
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An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
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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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Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
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