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Walter Darby Bannard
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: January 1
Died: 2016
Died: October 2
Painter
Printmaker
New Haven
Connecticut
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W. Darby Bannard
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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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There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.
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In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.
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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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Don't explain, enjoy.
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Power is like money. Some know how to get it few know how to use it.
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Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.
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We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.
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When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea.
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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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When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.
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Stale artifacts of the past' are always 'active components of the present moment' when they are experienced in the present moment.
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Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.
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Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.
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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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Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.
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There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.
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Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.
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When anything goes, everything goes.
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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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