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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
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Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
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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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Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.
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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.
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There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.
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When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble.
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Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.
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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.
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Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
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A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
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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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Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.
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Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.
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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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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.
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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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There is no best way to make art, but there are a lot of better ways.
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When anything goes, everything goes.
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Don't explain, enjoy.
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