All Walter Darby Bannard Quotes
- You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux. Appreciate
- Art is not 'about.' Art is. Art
- In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them. Advantage
- When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which echo processes in… Abstract
- Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it. Advice
- Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it. Application
- Whether something is called art is beside the point. What counts is what happens when you ask it to actually be art. Art
- There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art. Art
- Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas. Fresh
- One needs to be right before getting righteous. Belief
- Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away. Art
- Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice. Choice
- Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice. Always Carries
- Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons. Art
- Purplish brown? Let's agree it / is a color so bad we all flee it / it has no good use / so let's name… Agree
- Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct. Assumption
- Most art is just surface noise. Art
- Of course I will look at anything, but I have not got the time or the patience to keep on looking at art that I… Art
- A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem. Critic
- No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem… Able
- The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience. Art
- When anyone can produce dreck or publish gibberish, and not only get away with it but be celebrated for it, the discipline is no longer… Anyone
- Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly. Chooses
- We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation. Experience
- Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades. Art