Walter Darby Bannard Quotes - Page 2

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• If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.

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  Art, Apples, Would Be

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• Art is there for nourishment, not explication.

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  Art, Satisfaction, Art Is

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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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  Art, Art Is, Happens

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• A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.

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  Art, Ideas, Quality

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• Art is too popular. If plumbing was as popular as art is we would have amateur plumbers running around brandishing wrenches and Roto-Rooters, climbing in and out of sewers and writing gibberish about pipe systems. And none of our our toilets would work.

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  Running, Art, Writing

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• Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.

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  Artist, Way, Needs

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• Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.

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  Art, Privilege, May

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• It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?

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  Art, Giving, Doe

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• Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.

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  Art, Quality, Facts

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• When you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable.

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  Mysterious, Obvious

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• There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.

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  Art, Magazines, Recognition

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• There's a big difference between grabbing attention and rewarding attention.

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  Differences, Attention, Recognition

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• Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.

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  Art, Reality, Art Is

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• Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.

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  Roots, Religion, Soil

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• Stale artifacts of the past' are always 'active components of the present moment' when they are experienced in the present moment.

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  Past, Tradition, Moments

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• We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.

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  Truth, Lying, Believe

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• Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.

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  Truth, People, Denial

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• Truth is not always hard to find; it is often staring you in the face. The problem with truth is that it is hard to believe. It is even harder to get other people to believe.

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  Truth, Believe, People

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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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  Art, Loss, Understanding

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• Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.

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  Art, Swimming, Underwater

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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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  Art, Suits Of Armor, Doe

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• When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.

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  Art, Writing, Chance

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• Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas.

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  Ideas, Profound, Timeliness

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• Art flows more easily when you are not thinking about what 'should' be in it or how it 'should' be done. The Impressionists taught us to look and see, not assume.

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  Art, Thinking, Taught Us

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• Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.

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  Art, Looks, Renewal

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