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Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.

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
Anything
Turns
Art

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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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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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In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.
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The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing.
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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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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 lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.
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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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When you write something new about science, other scientists may not like it but they pay attention because it is subject to proof. When you write something new about art, it is subject only to the reader's discomfort, and will probably be rejected.
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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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The power of art is not in communication but effect what it does, not what it relates.
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Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.
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Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.
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Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.
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