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Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.

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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
Much
Reveals
Complete
Freedom
Art
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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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Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
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Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas.
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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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Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.
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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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Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.
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Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.
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The struggle to be original hates conformity, but the struggle to be better disregards it, or takes advantage of it to build workable conventions.
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Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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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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Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.
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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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Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
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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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Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.
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Truth is not always hard to find it is often staring you in the face. The problem with truth is that it is hard to believe. It is even harder to get other people to believe.
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In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them.
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We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.
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There's a big difference between grabbing attention and rewarding attention.
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