Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure? — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft; it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Whether something is called art is beside the point. What counts is what happens when you ask it to actually be art. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Art is like a butterfly fluttering in a meadow. Analysis of art is like a butterfly on a pin. Each has its… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share
Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share
The struggle to be original hates conformity, but the struggle to be better disregards it, or takes advantage of it to build workable conventions. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share
There is no best way to make art, but there are a lot of better ways. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share
Of course I will look at anything, but I have not got the time or the patience to keep on looking at art that… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share
Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share
Talent is like a seed which needs fertile soil. There is no less talent now, there is less fertile soil to nourish it. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share
Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share
There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share
There's a big difference between grabbing attention and rewarding attention. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share
Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share
When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share
The power of art is not in communication but effect; what it does, not what it relates. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share
