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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
Criticism
Art
Noise
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Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
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Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.
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Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
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Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.
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Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.
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Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
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One needs to be right before getting righteous.
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Art is like a butterfly fluttering in a meadow. Analysis of art is like a butterfly on a pin. Each has its value, but we must always be aware of the difference, and what is gained or lost.
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When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.
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Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.
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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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Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.
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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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