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When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.

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
Art
Anything
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Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.
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Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.
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Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.
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One needs to be right before getting righteous.
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If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality.
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Most art is just surface noise.
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Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.
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The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing.
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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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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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When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble.
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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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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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