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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.
Walter Darby Bannard
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Walter Darby Bannard
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: January 1
Died: 2016
Died: October 2
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New Haven
Connecticut
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Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.
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Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.
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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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It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?
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Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.
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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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Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.
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Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.
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Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
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Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
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When anything goes, everything goes.
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An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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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.
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When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.
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