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Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
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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Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.
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Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.
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Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.
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When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.
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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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Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.
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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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When you have made a good painting, don't do another like it, but remember the process, what you did, what you were thinking and feeling.
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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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Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.
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