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It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?
— Walter Darby Bannard
Stale artifacts of the past' are always 'active components of the present moment' when they are experienced in the present moment.
— Walter Darby Bannard
There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.
— Walter Darby Bannard
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
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 of cubism.
— Walter Darby Bannard
There's a big difference between grabbing attention and rewarding attention.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.
— Walter Darby Bannard
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
A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.
— Walter Darby Bannard
When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Don't explain, enjoy.
— Walter Darby Bannard
When you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
— Walter Darby Bannard
In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft; it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best.
— Walter Darby Bannard
When you have made a good painting, don't do another like it, but remember the process, what you did, what you were thinking and feeling.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Art is not 'about.' Art is.
— Walter Darby Bannard
We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.
— Walter Darby Bannard
We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.
— Walter Darby Bannard
When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.
— Walter Darby Bannard
When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.
— Walter Darby Bannard
A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
— Walter Darby Bannard
There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.
— Walter Darby Bannard
When anything goes, everything goes.
— Walter Darby Bannard
When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Live to paint, don't paint to live.
— Walter Darby Bannard
The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.
— Walter Darby Bannard
What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead, / green citrus fruit / upon my head.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.
— Walter Darby Bannard
In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.
— Walter Darby Bannard
An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
— Walter Darby Bannard
When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea.
— Walter Darby Bannard
The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.
— Walter Darby Bannard
You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.
— Walter Darby Bannard
When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.
— Walter Darby Bannard
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 language.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Power is like money. Some know how to get it; few know how to use it.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.
— Walter Darby Bannard
There is no best way to make art, but there are a lot of better ways.
— Walter Darby Bannard
The struggle to be original hates conformity, but the struggle to be better disregards it, or takes advantage of it to build workable conventions.
— Walter Darby Bannard
If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Art is there for nourishment, not explication.
— Walter Darby Bannard
If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality.
— Walter Darby Bannard
When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend.
— Walter Darby Bannard
One needs to be right before getting righteous.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Most art is just surface noise.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.
— Walter Darby Bannard
When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
— Walter Darby Bannard
The power of art is not in communication but effect; what it does, not what it relates.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.
— Walter Darby Bannard
The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Science is a matter of adjusting language to explain material reality. Art is a matter of adjusting material reality to create a sense of life.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.
— Walter Darby Bannard