The power of art is not in communication but effect; what it does, not what it relates. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
If we see an object as a bowl, it may inhibit seeing it as craft, just as seeing it as craft might… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime /… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Science is a matter of adjusting language to explain material reality. Art is a matter of adjusting material reality to create a… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Many years ago, Clement Greenberg said, 'All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.' This should be updated now to 'All profoundly… — 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
When you have made a good painting, don't do another like it, but remember the process, what you did, what you were… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
When you write something new about science, other scientists may not like it but they pay attention because it is subject to… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Art is too popular. If plumbing was as popular as art is we would have amateur plumbers running around brandishing wrenches and… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Of course I will look at anything, but I have not got the time or the patience to keep on looking at… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it. — 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
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
