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
Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away. — 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
Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons. — 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
If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook. — 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
