Timely Quotes by Walter Darby Bannard

The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing.

— Walter Darby Bannard

There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.

— Walter Darby Bannard

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

There is no best way to make art, but there are a lot of better ways.

— Walter Darby Bannard

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

Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.

— Walter Darby Bannard

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

Live to paint, don't paint to live.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.

— Walter Darby Bannard

There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.

— Walter Darby Bannard

There's a big difference between grabbing attention and rewarding attention.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.

— Walter Darby Bannard

When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea.

— Walter Darby Bannard

The power of art is not in communication but effect; what it does, not what it relates.

— Walter Darby Bannard