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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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Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best.
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Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.
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Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.
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Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.
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One needs to be right before getting righteous.
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Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
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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 art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.
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Power is like money. Some know how to get it few know how to use it.
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Art rides in on pleasure.
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Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.
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Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
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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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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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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 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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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 good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea.
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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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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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