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Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.
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
Bored
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Away
Regularity
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Wheel
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Boredom
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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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What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead, / green citrus fruit / upon my head.
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