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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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It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?
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Art is there for nourishment, not explication.
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You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.
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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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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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Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.
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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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Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.
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Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.
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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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Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
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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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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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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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When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea.
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Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.
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We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.
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In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them.
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Most art is just surface noise.
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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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