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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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Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.
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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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Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.
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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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Art rides in on pleasure.
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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 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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When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.
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There is no best way to make art, but there are a lot of better ways.
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Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.
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One needs to be right before getting righteous.
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