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We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.
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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When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea.
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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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Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.
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Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.
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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 may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.
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Art is like a butterfly fluttering in a meadow. Analysis of art is like a butterfly on a pin. Each has its value, but we must always be aware of the difference, and what is gained or lost.
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There's a big difference between grabbing attention and rewarding attention.
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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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Art is not 'about.' Art is.
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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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