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If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality.
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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Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
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We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.
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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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It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?
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Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best.
Walter Darby Bannard
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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Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.
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Truth is not always hard to find it is often staring you in the face. The problem with truth is that it is hard to believe. It is even harder to get other people to believe.
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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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When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
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If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.
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Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.
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Art rides in on pleasure.
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Don't explain, enjoy.
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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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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.
Walter Darby Bannard
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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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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Art is not 'about.' Art is.
Walter Darby Bannard
