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A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
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
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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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Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best.
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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 is not 'about.' Art is.
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Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
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Most art is just surface noise.
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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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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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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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Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.
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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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Power is like money. Some know how to get it few know how to use it.
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You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.
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When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.
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There's a big difference between grabbing attention and rewarding attention.
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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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There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.
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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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Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.
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When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.
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