Walter Darby Bannard Quotes

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• Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.

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  Silly, Modernism, Postmodernism

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• Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.

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  Art, Writing, Art Is

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• Science is a matter of adjusting language to explain material reality. Art is a matter of adjusting material reality to create a sense of life.

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  Art, Reality, Adjusting

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• When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.

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  Real, Landscape, Assuming

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• Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.

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  Alzheimer's, Modernism, Postmodernism

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• The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.

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  Responsibility, Firsts, Obvious

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• Live to paint, don't paint to live.

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  Life, Live Life, Paint

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• Power is like money. Some know how to get it; few know how to use it.

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  Power, Use, Know How

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• When anything goes, everything goes.

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  Anything Goes, Standards

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• Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.

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  Ambition, Reality, Air

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• When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.

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  Art, Art Is

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• When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.

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  Inspiration, Imitation, Thrive

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• Art is not 'about.' Art is.

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  Art, Art Is

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• Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.

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  Ideas, Mind, Use

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• Talent is like a seed which needs fertile soil. There is no less talent now, there is less fertile soil to nourish it.

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  Needs, Soil, Talent

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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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  Reality, Perception, Way

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• Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft; it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best.

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  Art, Rap, Mediocrity

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• You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.

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  Appreciation, Men, Appreciate

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• Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.

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  Believe, History, Facts

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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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  Art, Past, Greatness

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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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  Freedom, Artist, Want

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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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  Hate, Struggle, Conformity

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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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  Art, Suits Of Armor, Doe

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• Truth is not always hard to find; it is often staring you in the face. The problem with truth is that it is hard to believe. It is even harder to get other people to believe.

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  Truth, Believe, People

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• When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble.

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  Break, Rubble, Barriers

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