Walter Darby Bannard Quotes - Page 4

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• Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.

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  Art, Turns, Ifs

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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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  Art, Writing, Attention

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• An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.

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  Doors, Ivory Tower, Long

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• Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.

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  Perception, Analysis, Intuitive

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

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  Roots, Religion, Soil

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

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  Art, Magazines, Recognition

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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, Communication, Power

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

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  Truth, People, Denial

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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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• When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.

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  Next, Painting, One Thing

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• In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.

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  Art, Standards, Good And Bad

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• Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.

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  Art, Doe, Needs

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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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  Years, Ugly, Firsts

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• Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.

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  Eye, Vision, Adrift

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• The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.

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  Art, Culture, Criteria

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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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  Art, Years, Fifty

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• Of course I will look at anything, but I have not got the time or the patience to keep on looking at art that I know could be better. I don't want art that needs fixing, I want art that sends me back to the studio to fix my own.

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  Art, Needs, Looks

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• Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.

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  Home, Trying, Places To Go

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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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