When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is. — Walter Darby Bannard Art Copy Share Image
When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial. — Walter Darby Bannard Denial Copy Share Image
In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them. — Walter Darby Bannard Advantage Copy Share Image
The power of art is not in communication but effect; what it does, not what it relates. — Walter Darby Bannard Art Copy Share Image
Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice. — Walter Darby Bannard Art Copy Share Image
Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas. — Walter Darby Bannard Artist 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 Art 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 Art Copy Share Image
Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to… — Walter Darby Bannard Art Copy Share Image
Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion. — Walter Darby Bannard Artist Copy Share Image
Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody… — 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 Art Copy Share Image
When anyone can produce dreck or publish gibberish, and not only get away with it but be celebrated for it, the discipline… — Walter Darby Bannard Discipline Copy Share Image
Truth is not always hard to find; it is often staring you in the face. The problem with truth is that it… — 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 Artist 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 Art 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 Analysis 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 Art Copy Share Image
When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next. — Walter Darby Bannard Artist Copy Share Image
Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty. — Walter Darby Bannard Dogmatism Copy Share Image
When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble. — Walter Darby Bannard Barriers Copy Share Image
