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Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.
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
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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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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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Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.
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Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.
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The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing.
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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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Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
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Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.
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Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.
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We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.
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Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
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Art flows more easily when you are not thinking about what 'should' be in it or how it 'should' be done. The Impressionists taught us to look and see, not assume.
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A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
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Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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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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The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.
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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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Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.
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