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When anything goes, everything goes.
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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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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The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.
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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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Most art is just surface noise.
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If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality.
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Stale artifacts of the past' are always 'active components of the present moment' when they are experienced in the present moment.
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Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
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Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates 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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Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.
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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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Art rides in on pleasure.
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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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There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.
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Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
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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 inspiration dies, imitation thrives.
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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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Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.
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