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Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas.

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Walter Darby Bannard
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: January 1
Died: 2016
Died: October 2
Painter
Printmaker
New Haven
Connecticut
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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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What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead, / green citrus fruit / upon my head.
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When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble.
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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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When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.
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There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.
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When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.
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Whether something is called art is beside the point. What counts is what happens when you ask it to actually be art.
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Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
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Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
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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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