Walter Darby Bannard Quotes

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• Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.

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  Art, Writing, Art Is

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• Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.

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  Silly, Modernism, Postmodernism

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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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  Real, Landscape, Assuming

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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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  Art, Reality, Adjusting

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• Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.

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  Alzheimer's, Modernism, Postmodernism

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• Live to paint, don't paint to live.

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  Life, Live Life, Paint

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• When anything goes, everything goes.

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  Anything Goes, Standards

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• When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.

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  Inspiration, Imitation, Thrive

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• Power is like money. Some know how to get it; few know how to use it.

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  Power, Use, Know How

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• The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.

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  Responsibility, Firsts, Obvious

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• When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.

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  Art, Art Is

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• Art is not 'about.' Art is.

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  Art, Art Is

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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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  Needs, Soil, Talent

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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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  Reality, Perception, Way

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• Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.

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  Ideas, Mind, Use

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• What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead, / green citrus fruit / upon my head.

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  Artist, Sublime, Green

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• Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft; it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best.

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  Art, Rap, Mediocrity

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• Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.

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  Art, Freedom, Character

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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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  Art, Boredom, Wheels

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• Art is there for nourishment, not explication.

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  Art, Satisfaction, Art Is

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• Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.

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  Ambition, Reality, Air

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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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  Running, Art, Writing

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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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  Art, Art Is, Happens

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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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  Art, Ideas, Quality

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• Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.

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  Art, Ideas, Burden

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