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Art rides in on pleasure.

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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Pleasure
Art

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Art is too popular. If plumbing was as popular as art is we would have amateur plumbers running around brandishing wrenches and Roto-Rooters, climbing in and out of sewers and writing gibberish about pipe systems. And none of our our toilets would work.
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The power of art is not in communication but effect what it does, not what it relates.
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Live to paint, don't paint to live.
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Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.
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