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An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
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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Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.
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Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.
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When you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable.
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When you have made a good painting, don't do another like it, but remember the process, what you did, what you were thinking and feeling.
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If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality.
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