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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
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W. Darby Bannard
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Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody inside.
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Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.
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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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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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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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An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
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Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
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One needs to be right before getting righteous.
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We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.
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Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.
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When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.
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When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
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In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.
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Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.
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We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.
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Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.
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Most art is just surface noise.
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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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Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.
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Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.
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