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We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.
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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Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.
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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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One needs to be right before getting righteous.
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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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The power of art is not in communication but effect what it does, not what it relates.
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