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Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
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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Purplish brown? Let's agree it / is a color so bad we all flee it / it has no good use / so let's name it Puce / from the sound we make when we see it.
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When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble.
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When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.
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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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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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A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
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Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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The struggle to be original hates conformity, but the struggle to be better disregards it, or takes advantage of it to build workable conventions.
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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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Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.
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An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
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There's a big difference between grabbing attention and rewarding attention.
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Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.
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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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Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.
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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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Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.
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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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It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?
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