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When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.

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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Anything
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Purplish brown? Let's agree it / is a color so bad we all flee it / it has no good use / so let's name it Puce / from the sound we make when we see it.
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Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.
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Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.
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Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
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Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
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We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.
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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
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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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