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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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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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It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?
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Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
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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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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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When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.
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The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.
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Art is not 'about.' Art is.
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Don't explain, enjoy.
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Many years ago, Clement Greenberg said, 'All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.' This should be updated now to 'All profoundly ugly work looks original at first.
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When you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable.
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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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