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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
Painter
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New Haven
Connecticut
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W. Darby Bannard
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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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Of course I will look at anything, but I have not got the time or the patience to keep on looking at art that I know could be better. I don't want art that needs fixing, I want art that sends me back to the studio to fix my own.
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Most art is just surface noise.
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Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.
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In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.
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When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble.
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Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.
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Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.
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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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We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.
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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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A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
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The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.
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