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Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
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 you write something new about science, other scientists may not like it but they pay attention because it is subject to proof. When you write something new about art, it is subject only to the reader's discomfort, and will probably be rejected.
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When you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable.
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Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
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