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Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.
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
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When anything goes, everything goes.
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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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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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Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.
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Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.
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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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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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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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An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
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Most art is just surface noise.
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Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.
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Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas.
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If we see an object as a bowl, it may inhibit seeing it as craft, just as seeing it as craft might inhibit seeing it as art. See first name later.
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To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from the past when we see it freshly.
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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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The power of art is not in communication but effect what it does, not what it relates.
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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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There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.
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Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.
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Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
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