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The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.
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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Convenience
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Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.
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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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Don't explain, enjoy.
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Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.
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Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.
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When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.
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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.
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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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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 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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To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from the past when we see it freshly.
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One needs to be right before getting righteous.
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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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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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An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
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