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Art is not 'about.' Art 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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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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An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
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Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.
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Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
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The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.
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Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
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Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.
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Don't explain, enjoy.
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Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.
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Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.
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Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.
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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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Most art is just surface noise.
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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 silly and joyless at the same time.
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A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
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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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Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.
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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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