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When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.
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
Darby Bannard
W. Darby Bannard
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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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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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Purplish brown? Let's agree it / is a color so bad we all flee it / it has no good use / so let's name it Puce / from the sound we make when we see it.
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When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.
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Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody inside.
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Talent is like a seed which needs fertile soil. There is no less talent now, there is less fertile soil to nourish it.
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Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.
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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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The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.
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When you have made a good painting, don't do another like it, but remember the process, what you did, what you were thinking and feeling.
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Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
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The power of art is not in communication but effect what it does, not what it relates.
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Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.
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Most art is just surface noise.
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Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.
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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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We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.
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You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.
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Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
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Art is not 'about.' Art is.
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