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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.
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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Art is too popular. If plumbing was as popular as art is we would have amateur plumbers running around brandishing wrenches and Roto-Rooters, climbing in and out of sewers and writing gibberish about pipe systems. And none of our our toilets would work.
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Art is not 'about.' Art is.
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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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A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.
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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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Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.
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When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
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Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.
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Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody inside.
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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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Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
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Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.
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An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
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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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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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Truth is not always hard to find it is often staring you in the face. The problem with truth is that it is hard to believe. It is even harder to get other people to believe.
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When you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable.
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Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.
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