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Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.
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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An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
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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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When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble.
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There's a big difference between grabbing attention and rewarding attention.
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When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.
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Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
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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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