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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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Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.
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A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
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When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
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An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
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When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.
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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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