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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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Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.
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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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Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.
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Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
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Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
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Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.
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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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One needs to be right before getting righteous.
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The struggle to be original hates conformity, but the struggle to be better disregards it, or takes advantage of it to build workable conventions.
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No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism.
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Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.
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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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Don't explain, enjoy.
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Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
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Most art is just surface noise.
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Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.
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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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