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Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas.
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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Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
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Art is like a butterfly fluttering in a meadow. Analysis of art is like a butterfly on a pin. Each has its value, but we must always be aware of the difference, and what is gained or lost.
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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 makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.
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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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In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them.
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Talent is like a seed which needs fertile soil. There is no less talent now, there is less fertile soil to nourish it.
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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.
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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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Whether something is called art is beside the point. What counts is what happens when you ask it to actually be art.
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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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When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which echo processes in nature.
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Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.
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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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Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
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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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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 first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.
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