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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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Art
Ideas
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Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
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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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Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.
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Stale artifacts of the past' are always 'active components of the present moment' when they are experienced in the present moment.
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Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.
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Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
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A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
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Most art is just surface noise.
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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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Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to cover the loss of mystery.
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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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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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We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.
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