Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons. — 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 makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality. — 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
Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better. — Walter Darby Bannard 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 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 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
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
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
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
Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality. — 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
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
