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Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.

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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Complete
Freedom
Art
Character
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One needs to be right before getting righteous.
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Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us beyond language.
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The struggle to be original hates conformity, but the struggle to be better disregards it, or takes advantage of it to build workable conventions.
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Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.
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