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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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Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.
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Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.
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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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To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from the past when we see it freshly.
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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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Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.
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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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Art is there for nourishment, not explication.
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The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.
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If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality.
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When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble.
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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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Most art is just surface noise.
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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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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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Art rides in on pleasure.
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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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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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Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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