In art there is no absolute ...

In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.
 Walter Darby Bannard

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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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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 realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which echo processes in nature.
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Art is there for nourishment, not explication.
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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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