We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience. — Walter Darby Bannard Believe 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
Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial. — Walter Darby Bannard Denial Copy Share Image
When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble. — Walter Darby Bannard Barriers 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
Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it. — Walter Darby Bannard Advice 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 Apples 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
Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion. — Walter Darby Bannard Illusion Copy Share Image
When you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable. — Walter Darby Bannard Inspirational Copy Share Image
Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words. — Walter Darby Bannard Art Copy Share Image
Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination. — Walter Darby Bannard Conventions Copy Share Image
If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality. — Walter Darby Bannard Education 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
In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad. — Walter Darby Bannard Absolutes 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
Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook. — Walter Darby Bannard Cooks Copy Share Image
The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious. — Walter Darby Bannard Duty 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
