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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.
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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When you have made a good painting, don't do another like it, but remember the process, what you did, what you were thinking and feeling.
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Art flows more easily when you are not thinking about what 'should' be in it or how it 'should' be done. The Impressionists taught us to look and see, not assume.
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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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Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.
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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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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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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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Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
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Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.
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Art is there for nourishment, not explication.
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Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.
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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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The power of art is not in communication but effect what it does, not what it relates.
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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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