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There is no best way to make art, but there are a lot of better ways.
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
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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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Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.
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Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
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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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Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
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Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.
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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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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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Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.
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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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When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
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Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.
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Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.
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Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.
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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 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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Art is there for nourishment, not explication.
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Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.
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Most art is just surface noise.
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