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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.
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
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Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.
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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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Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.
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Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.
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When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.
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Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.
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Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
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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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A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.
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Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
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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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