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Power is like money. Some know how to get it few know how to use it.
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
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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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Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.
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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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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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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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Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.
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When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.
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Art is there for nourishment, not explication.
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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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Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.
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Art is not 'about.' Art is.
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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 good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea.
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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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There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.
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Most art is just surface noise.
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