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Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.
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
Anything
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Art
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Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.
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Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.
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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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Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.
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An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
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Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.
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