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 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
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
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
Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it. — 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
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
Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice. — 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
Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character. — 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
Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality. — 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
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
Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality. — 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
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
There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art. — 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
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 Image
There is no best way to make art, but there are a lot of better ways. — 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 art that… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
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 Image
Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
There's a big difference between grabbing attention and rewarding attention. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
