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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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When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.
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Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
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Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.
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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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Art rides in on pleasure.
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Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.
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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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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.
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When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
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Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.
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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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Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
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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 is not 'about.' Art is.
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A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
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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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