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The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.
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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We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.
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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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Art rides in on pleasure.
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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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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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When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea.
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Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.
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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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Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.
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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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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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When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.
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Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us beyond language.
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When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
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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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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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The power of art is not in communication but effect what it does, not what it relates.
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Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.
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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.
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Most art is just surface noise.
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