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Power is like money. Some know how to get it few know how to use it.
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
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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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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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It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?
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Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.
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Most art is just surface noise.
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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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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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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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Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.
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Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.
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When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
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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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There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.
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Art is there for nourishment, not explication.
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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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Art rides in on pleasure.
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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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Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
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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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