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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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Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.
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A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
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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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Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
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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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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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A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.
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