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In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.
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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Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.
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Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.
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When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.
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Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.
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Truth is not always hard to find it is often staring you in the face. The problem with truth is that it is hard to believe. It is even harder to get other people to believe.
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We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.
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Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.
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One needs to be right before getting righteous.
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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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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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There's a big difference between grabbing attention and rewarding attention.
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Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas.
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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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Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
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Art rides in on pleasure.
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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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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 art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.
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When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
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