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Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
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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Don't explain, enjoy.
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One needs to be right before getting righteous.
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Most art is just surface noise.
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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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Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody inside.
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In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.
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If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality.
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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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Many years ago, Clement Greenberg said, 'All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.' This should be updated now to 'All profoundly ugly work looks original at first.
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