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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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Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.
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Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.
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Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.
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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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Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.
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We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.
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We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.
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Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
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Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.
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Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
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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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When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.
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Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas.
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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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Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.
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Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.
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Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.
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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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If we see an object as a bowl, it may inhibit seeing it as craft, just as seeing it as craft might inhibit seeing it as art. See first name later.
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