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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
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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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Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.
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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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It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?
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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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Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.
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When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
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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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Many years ago, Clement Greenberg said, 'All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.' This should be updated now to 'All profoundly ugly work looks original at first.
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To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from the past when we see it freshly.
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A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.
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Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.
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Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
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When anything goes, everything goes.
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Art is there for nourishment, not explication.
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Power is like money. Some know how to get it few know how to use it.
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If we see an object as a bowl, it may inhibit seeing it as craft, just as seeing it as craft might inhibit seeing it as art. See first name later.
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Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.
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Talent is like a seed which needs fertile soil. There is no less talent now, there is less fertile soil to nourish it.
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Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.
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