Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it. — Walter Darby Bannard Art Copy Share Image
Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better. — Walter Darby Bannard Art 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 Artist Copy Share Image
Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality. — Walter Darby Bannard Art 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 Art 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 Apples Copy Share Image
When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which… — Walter Darby Bannard Abstract 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 Art 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 Art Copy Share Image
The struggle to be original hates conformity, but the struggle to be better disregards it, or takes advantage of it to build… — Walter Darby Bannard Advantage Copy Share Image
Art flows more easily when you are not thinking about what 'should' be in it or how it 'should' be done. The… — Walter Darby Bannard Art Copy Share Image
Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it. — Walter Darby Bannard Advice 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 Art Copy Share Image
Purplish brown? Let's agree it / is a color so bad we all flee it / it has no good use /… — 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
Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past. — Walter Darby Bannard Art Copy Share Image
When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion. — Walter Darby Bannard Artist Copy Share Image
Stale artifacts of the past' are always 'active components of the present moment' when they are experienced in the present moment. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
