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Live to paint, don’t paint to live (Walter Darby Bannard Quotes)
Most art is just surface noise (Walter Darby Bannard Quotes)
Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character (Walter Darby Bannard Quotes)
When imitation goes over big, it isn’t imitation, it is a trend (Walter Darby Bannard Quotes)
Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice (Walter Darby Bannard Quotes)
Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words (Walter Darby Bannard Quotes)
Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas (Walter Darby Bannard Quotes)
We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation (Walter Darby Bannard Quotes)
One needs to be right before getting righteous (Walter Darby Bannard Quotes)
There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art (Walter Darby Bannard Quotes)
The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience (Walter Darby Bannard Quotes)
Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination (Walter Darby Bannard Quotes)
Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it (Walter Darby Bannard Quotes)
A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem (Walter Darby Bannard Quotes)
Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe (Walter Darby Bannard Quotes)
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 know could be better. I don’t want art that needs fixing, I want art that sends me back to the studio to fix my own (Walter Darby Bannard Quotes)
When you write something new about science, other scientists may not like it but they pay attention because it is subject to proof. When you write something new about art, it is subject only to the reader’s discomfort, and will probably be rejected (Walter Darby Bannard Quotes)
Art is like a butterfly fluttering in a meadow. Analysis of art is like a butterfly on a pin. Each has its value, but we must always be aware of the difference, and what is gained or lost (Walter Darby Bannard Quotes)
Talent is like a seed which needs fertile soil. There is no less talent now, there is less fertile soil to nourish it (Walter Darby Bannard Quotes)
Truth is not always hard to find; it is often staring you in the face. The problem with truth is that it is hard to believe. It is even harder to get other people to believe (Walter Darby Bannard Quotes)
Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to cover the loss of mystery (Walter Darby Bannard Quotes)
Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons (Walter Darby Bannard Quotes)
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 a discipline, and it will get no respect (Walter Darby Bannard Quotes)
Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don’t, art gets bored and slips away (Walter Darby Bannard Quotes)
Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas (Walter Darby Bannard Quotes)
Whether something is called art is beside the point. What counts is what happens when you ask it to actually be art (Walter Darby Bannard Quotes)
Don’t apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it (Walter Darby Bannard Quotes)
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 nature (Walter Darby Bannard Quotes)
If we see an object as a bowl, it may inhibit seeing it as craft, just as seeing it as craft might inhibit seeing it as art. See first; name later (Walter Darby Bannard Quotes)
The power of art is not in communication but effect; what it does, not what it relates (Walter Darby Bannard Quotes)