There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine. — Walter Darby Bannard Art Copy Share Image
Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades. — Walter Darby Bannard Art Copy Share Image
There is no best way to make art, but there are a lot of better ways. — Walter Darby Bannard Art Copy Share Image
Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct. — Walter Darby Bannard Assumption Copy Share Image
There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art. — Walter Darby Bannard Art Copy Share Image
Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do. — Walter Darby Bannard Art Copy Share Image
Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place. — Walter Darby Bannard Art Copy Share Image
When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend. — Walter Darby Bannard Bigs Copy Share Image
Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past. — Walter Darby Bannard Art Copy Share Image
When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion. — Walter Darby Bannard Artist Copy Share Image
Stale artifacts of the past' are always 'active components of the present moment' when they are experienced in the present moment. — Walter Darby Bannard Active Copy Share Image
Purplish brown? Let's agree it / is a color so bad we all flee it / it has no good use /… — Walter Darby Bannard Agree 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 Able 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 Art 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 Art 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 Abstract 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… — Walter Darby Bannard Art 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 Analysis 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 Art Copy Share Image
Truth is not always hard to find; it is often staring you in the face. The problem with truth is that it… — Walter Darby Bannard Believe Copy Share Image
Many years ago, Clement Greenberg said, 'All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.' This should be updated now to 'All profoundly… — Walter Darby Bannard Artist Copy Share Image
When anyone can produce dreck or publish gibberish, and not only get away with it but be celebrated for it, the discipline… — Walter Darby Bannard Discipline Copy Share Image
When you write something new about science, other scientists may not like it but they pay attention because it is subject to… — Walter Darby Bannard Art Copy Share Image
Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time. — Walter Darby Bannard Inspirational Copy Share Image
Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice. — Walter Darby Bannard Choices Copy Share Image
Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character. — Walter Darby Bannard Art Copy Share Image
Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired. — Walter Darby Bannard Admired Copy Share Image
The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious. — Walter Darby Bannard Duty Copy Share Image
Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it. — Walter Darby Bannard Application Copy Share Image
Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift. — Walter Darby Bannard Adrift Copy Share Image
Power is like money. Some know how to get it; few know how to use it. — Walter Darby Bannard Inspirational Copy Share Image
Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe. — Walter Darby Bannard Believe Copy Share Image
