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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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If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.
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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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The struggle to be original hates conformity, but the struggle to be better disregards it, or takes advantage of it to build workable conventions.
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When anyone can produce dreck or publish gibberish, and not only get away with it but be celebrated for it, the discipline is no longer a discipline, and it will get no respect.
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Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.
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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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An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
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One needs to be right before getting righteous.
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Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.
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Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
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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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The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.
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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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The power of art is not in communication but effect what it does, not what it relates.
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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 anything goes, everything goes.
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There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.
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We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.
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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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