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When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.
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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Anything
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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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Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
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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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