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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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Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.
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Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.
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Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.
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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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There is no best way to make art, but there are a lot of better ways.
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Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.
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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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In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them.
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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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