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If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality.
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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Whether something is called art is beside the point. What counts is what happens when you ask it to actually be art.
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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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Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
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Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
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A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
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Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
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Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.
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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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