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Art rides in on pleasure.

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
Walter Bannard
Rides
Pleasure
Art

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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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Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.
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Whether something is called art is beside the point. What counts is what happens when you ask it to actually be art.
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Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.
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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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We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.
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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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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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What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead, / green citrus fruit / upon my head.
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Science is a matter of adjusting language to explain material reality. Art is a matter of adjusting material reality to create a sense of life.
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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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