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Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.
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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Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
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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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Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
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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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Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.
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Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas.
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Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.
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Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.
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There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.
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Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.
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The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.
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Science is a matter of adjusting language to explain material reality. Art is a matter of adjusting material reality to create a sense of life.
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When you write something new about science, other scientists may not like it but they pay attention because it is subject to proof. When you write something new about art, it is subject only to the reader's discomfort, and will probably be rejected.
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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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When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.
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There's a big difference between grabbing attention and rewarding attention.
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Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
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When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.
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When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
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Of course I will look at anything, but I have not got the time or the patience to keep on looking at art that I know could be better. I don't want art that needs fixing, I want art that sends me back to the studio to fix my own.
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