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Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.

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
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Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.
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An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
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Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.
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To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from the past when we see it freshly.
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