Walter Darby Bannard Quotes - Page 3

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• Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.

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  Real, World, Painting

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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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  Art, Wall, Labels

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• Don't explain, enjoy.

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  Joy, Enjoy

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• Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.

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  Art, Knowing, Something Better

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• Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.

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  Art, Quality, Facts

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• Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.

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  Art, Swimming, Underwater

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• Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to cover the loss of mystery.

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  Art, Loss, Understanding

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• Stale artifacts of the past' are always 'active components of the present moment' when they are experienced in the present moment.

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  Past, Tradition, Moments

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• Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas.

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  Ideas, Profound, Timeliness

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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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  Art, Thinking, Taught Us

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• Art is like a butterfly fluttering in a meadow. Analysis of art is like a butterfly on a pin. Each has its value, but we must always be aware of the difference, and what is gained or lost.

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  Art, Butterfly, Differences

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• Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.

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  Art, Inspiration, Style

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• When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.

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  Art, Writing, Chance

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• When you have made a good painting, don't do another like it, but remember the process, what you did, what you were thinking and feeling.

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  Thinking, Feelings, Remember

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• There is no best way to make art, but there are a lot of better ways.

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  Art, Way, Methodology

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• Most art is just surface noise.

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  Art, Criticism, Noise

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• Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.

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  Confidence, Assumption, Presumptuous

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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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  Color, Names, Sound

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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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  Art, People, Lucky

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• Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.

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  Art, Simple, Choices

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• Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.

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  Choices, Too Much, Constructive

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• One needs to be right before getting righteous.

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  Needs, Belief, Righteous

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• When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which echo processes in nature.

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  Echoes, Abstract Painting, Patterns

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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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  Art, Names, Vision

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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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  Mean, Creative, Excellence

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