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Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.
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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More quotes by Walter Darby Bannard
Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.
Walter Darby Bannard
We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.
Walter Darby Bannard
Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.
Walter Darby Bannard
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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Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.
Walter Darby Bannard
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.
Walter Darby Bannard
Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.
Walter Darby Bannard
Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.
Walter Darby Bannard
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.
Walter Darby Bannard
Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.
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Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.
Walter Darby Bannard
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.
Walter Darby Bannard
Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.
Walter Darby Bannard
When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.
Walter Darby Bannard
Art is not 'about.' Art is.
Walter Darby Bannard
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.
Walter Darby Bannard
There is no best way to make art, but there are a lot of better ways.
Walter Darby Bannard
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.
Walter Darby Bannard
In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them.
Walter Darby Bannard
Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.
Walter Darby Bannard