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When you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable.
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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W. Darby Bannard
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Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to cover the loss of mystery.
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When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble.
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When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.
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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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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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Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.
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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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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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Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.
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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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