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Most art is just surface noise.
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
Art
Noise
Surface
Criticism
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When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
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We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.
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Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
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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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Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.
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Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.
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If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality.
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Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.
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Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.
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Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.
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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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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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A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.
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What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead, / green citrus fruit / upon my head.
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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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Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.
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If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.
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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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