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The power of art is not in communication but effect what it does, not what it relates.
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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Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
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If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.
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Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.
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When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble.
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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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When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.
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Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.
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Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.
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Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
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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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The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.
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When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.
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Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.
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Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.
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Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.
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If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality.
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Art is there for nourishment, not explication.
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