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Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.
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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When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
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An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
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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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Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.
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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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Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us beyond language.
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