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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
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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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Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
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Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.
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The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.
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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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Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.
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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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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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In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them.
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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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Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.
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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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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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Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.
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We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.
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Art flows more easily when you are not thinking about what 'should' be in it or how it 'should' be done. The Impressionists taught us to look and see, not assume.
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When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.
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Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.
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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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One needs to be right before getting righteous.
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