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Art Quotes by Walter Darby Bannard
- Art is not 'about.' Art is.
- In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them.
- Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.
- Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.
- Whether something is called art is beside the point. What counts is what happens when you ask it to actually be art.
- There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.
- Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.
- Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.
- Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.
- Most art is just surface noise.
- 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…
- 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…
- The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.
- Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
- Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.
- Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.
- Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
- Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us beyond…
- To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from the past when…
- When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.
- Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft; it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best.
- There is no best way to make art, but there are a lot of better ways.
- Art rides in on pleasure.
- The power of art is not in communication but effect; what it does, not what it relates.
- Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.
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