The power of art is not in communication but effect; what it does, not what it relates. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality. — 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
Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of 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
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
