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Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.
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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Talent is like a seed which needs fertile soil. There is no less talent now, there is less fertile soil to nourish it.
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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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Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.
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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 making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.
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A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
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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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There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.
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Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.
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Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.
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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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Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates 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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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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Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.
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Purplish brown? Let's agree it / is a color so bad we all flee it / it has no good use / so let's name it Puce / from the sound we make when we see it.
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When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.
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Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
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When anything goes, everything goes.
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