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Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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
Walter Bannard
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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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Most art is just surface noise.
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Art rides in on pleasure.
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Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.
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Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.
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When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.
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Don't explain, enjoy.
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Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.
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When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble.
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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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We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.
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When anything goes, everything goes.
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Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
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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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You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.
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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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An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
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The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing.
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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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Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.
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