The more freedom artists have ...

The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing.
The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing.
 Walter Darby Bannard

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

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Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.
 Walter Darby Bannard
No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism.
 Walter Darby Bannard
In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.
 Walter Darby Bannard
When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which echo processes in nature.
 Walter Darby Bannard
Art is there for nourishment, not explication.
 Walter Darby Bannard