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When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.
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
Walter Bannard
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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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If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.
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Purplish brown? Let's agree it / is a color so bad we all flee it / it has no good use / so let's name it Puce / from the sound we make when we see it.
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Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
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The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing.
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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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Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.
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When anything goes, everything goes.
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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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Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.
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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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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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When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
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To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from the past when we see it freshly.
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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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When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.
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Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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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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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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