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Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.

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
Alzheimer
Modernism

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When you write something new about science, other scientists may not like it but they pay attention because it is subject to proof. When you write something new about art, it is subject only to the reader's discomfort, and will probably be rejected.
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Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
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Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.
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A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
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You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.
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Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.
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Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.
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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.
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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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