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Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.

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
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Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.
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Talent is like a seed which needs fertile soil. There is no less talent now, there is less fertile soil to nourish it.
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