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Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad 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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Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.
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An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
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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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The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.
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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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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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When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.
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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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In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them.
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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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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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The power of art is not in communication but effect what it does, not what it relates.
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Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.
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When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.
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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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There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.
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Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.
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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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Of course I will look at anything, but I have not got the time or the patience to keep on looking at art that I know could be better. I don't want art that needs fixing, I want art that sends me back to the studio to fix my own.
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Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.
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