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When anything goes, everything goes.

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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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W. Darby 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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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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When anyone can produce dreck or publish gibberish, and not only get away with it but be celebrated for it, the discipline is no longer a discipline, and it will get no respect.
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Art is there for nourishment, not explication.
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Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.
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Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
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The struggle to be original hates conformity, but the struggle to be better disregards it, or takes advantage of it to build workable conventions.
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Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
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Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.
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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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Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.
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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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When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.
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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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Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
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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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Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.
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Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.
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Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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