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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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We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.
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Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.
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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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If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality.
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There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.
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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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Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.
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Art rides in on pleasure.
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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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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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In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them.
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Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
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When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.
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Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.
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Art is there for nourishment, not explication.
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The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.
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Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
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Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.
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Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.
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