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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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The power of art is not in communication but effect what it does, not what it relates.
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Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.
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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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Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.
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Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.
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Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.
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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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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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There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.
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Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.
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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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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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Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.
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There's a big difference between grabbing attention and rewarding attention.
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When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.
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When you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable.
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Art is not 'about.' Art is.
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Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.
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Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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