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When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.
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
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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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When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
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Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.
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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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The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing.
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You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.
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Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
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