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The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.
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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Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.
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Of course I will look at anything, but I have not got the time or the patience to keep on looking at art that I know could be better. I don't want art that needs fixing, I want art that sends me back to the studio to fix my own.
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When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.
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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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Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.
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Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.
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When you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable.
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Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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