Power is like money. Some know how to get it; few know how to use it. — Walter Darby Bannard Inspirational Copy Share Image
Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty. — Walter Darby Bannard Dogmatism Copy Share Image
Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
When you have made a good painting, don't do another like it, but remember the process, what you did, what you were… — Walter Darby Bannard Artist Copy Share Image
Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better. — Walter Darby Bannard Art Copy Share Image
Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it. — Walter Darby Bannard Art 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
If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality. — Walter Darby Bannard Education 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
The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing. — 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
In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them. — Walter Darby Bannard Advantage Copy Share Image
When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next. — Walter Darby Bannard Artist Copy Share Image
Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art. — Walter Darby Bannard Art Copy Share Image
Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas. — Walter Darby Bannard Bad idea Copy Share Image
There's a big difference between grabbing attention and rewarding attention. — Walter Darby Bannard Attention Copy Share Image
We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation. — Walter Darby Bannard Experience Copy Share Image
When you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable. — Walter Darby Bannard Inspirational Copy Share Image
When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble. — Walter Darby Bannard Barriers Copy Share Image
When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is. — Walter Darby Bannard Art Copy Share Image
Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial. — Walter Darby Bannard Denial 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
The struggle to be original hates conformity, but the struggle to be better disregards it, or takes advantage of it to build… — Walter Darby Bannard Advantage 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
