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Darby Bannard

23 September 1934-2 October 2016

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Art is powerful not in communication but in effect. It is powerful for what it does rather than for what it relates.

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Art is not a matter of whether something is already called art, but rather, it is a matter of what happens when you ask that thing to actually be art.

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Conceptual art is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.

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Postmodernism is, in art, not helpful in understanding 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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Science is contrasted with art in that art is subject only to the reader's discomfort and can be rejected on that basis alone whereas science is subject to proof and can't thus be ignored, however uncomfortable.