If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one. — Walter Darby Bannard Apples 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
Talent is like a seed which needs fertile soil. There is no less talent now, there is less fertile soil to nourish… — Walter Darby Bannard Fertile 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
Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air. — Walter Darby Bannard Abandon 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
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
Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to… — Walter Darby Bannard Art Copy Share Image
Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion. — Walter Darby Bannard Artist Copy Share Image
Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to… — Walter Darby Bannard Art Copy Share Image
Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody… — Walter Darby Bannard Armor Copy Share Image
What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime /… — Walter Darby Bannard Art Copy Share Image
In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad. — Walter Darby Bannard Absolute 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
Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas. — Walter Darby Bannard Artist Copy Share Image
The power of art is not in communication but effect; what it does, not what it relates. — Walter Darby Bannard Art Copy Share Image
Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice. — Walter Darby Bannard Art 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 Art Copy Share Image
