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When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.
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 art is just surface noise.
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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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Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.
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Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best.
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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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Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas.
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The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.
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When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble.
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Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.
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Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.
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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 you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable.
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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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Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.
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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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We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.
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Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
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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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Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.
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Don't explain, enjoy.
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