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Most art is just surface noise.
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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Surface
Criticism
Art
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Art rides in on pleasure.
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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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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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When you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable.
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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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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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We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.
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Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.
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Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.
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Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.
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Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.
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An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
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