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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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Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.
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Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.
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One needs to be right before getting righteous.
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Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.
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Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.
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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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Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody inside.
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Science is a matter of adjusting language to explain material reality. Art is a matter of adjusting material reality to create a sense of life.
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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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The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.
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The power of art is not in communication but effect what it does, not what it relates.
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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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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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No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism.
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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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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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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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Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.
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Don't explain, enjoy.
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