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
Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades. — Walter Darby Bannard Art Copy Share Image
You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux. — Walter Darby Bannard Appreciate Copy Share Image
Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away. — 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
Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time. — Walter Darby Bannard Inspirational 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
A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it. — Walter Darby Bannard Art Copy Share Image
Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly. — Walter Darby Bannard Creative 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
Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired. — Walter Darby Bannard Art Copy Share Image
To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from… — Walter Darby Bannard Art Copy Share Image
Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct. — Walter Darby Bannard Assumption 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
Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons. — Walter Darby Bannard Art 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 Firsts Copy Share Image
An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open. — Walter Darby Bannard Doors Copy Share Image
Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift. — Walter Darby Bannard Adrift Copy Share Image
Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one. — Walter Darby Bannard Art 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
When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion. — Walter Darby Bannard Assuming 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 Art 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 Adjusting Copy Share Image
