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Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.
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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Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.
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The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.
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When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea.
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Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.
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When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.
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When you have made a good painting, don't do another like it, but remember the process, what you did, what you were thinking and feeling.
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In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them.
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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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Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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