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Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.

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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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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When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.
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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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Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.
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Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.
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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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Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
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Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.
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Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
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When you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable.
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Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody inside.
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We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.
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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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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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Art is there for nourishment, not explication.
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No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism.
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Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.
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Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.
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Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.
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