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Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.
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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In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.
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Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.
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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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Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.
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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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The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing.
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There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.
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The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.
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When you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable.
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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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Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.
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