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When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
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 lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.
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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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Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.
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When anyone can produce dreck or publish gibberish, and not only get away with it but be celebrated for it, the discipline is no longer a discipline, and it will get no respect.
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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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Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
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We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.
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We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.
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What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead, / green citrus fruit / upon my head.
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Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.
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Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.
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Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.
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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 is Modernism with Alzheimer's.
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If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.
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Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
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When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which echo processes in nature.
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Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
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