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Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.

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
Art
Reality
Truth
Conforms
Invents
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Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
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Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.
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Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.
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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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Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.
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