If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one. Walter Darby Bannard More Quotes by Walter Darby Bannard More Quotes From Walter Darby Bannard 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 butterflydifferencesart When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble. Walter Darby Bannard rubblebarriersbreak 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 conformityhatestruggle Art is there for nourishment, not explication. Walter Darby Bannard art-issatisfactionart Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired. Walter Darby Bannard doeartneeds An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open. Walter Darby Bannard ivory-towerdoorslong In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad. Walter Darby Bannard standardsgood-and-badart Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it. Walter Darby Bannard styleinspirationart Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK. Walter Darby Bannard turnsifsart 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 visionnamesart Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons. Walter Darby Bannard luckypeopleart Purplish brown? Let's agree it / is a color so bad we all flee it / it has no good use / so let's name it Puce / from the sound we make when we see it. Walter Darby Bannard colornamessound Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct. Walter Darby Bannard presumptuousconfidenceassumption 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 looksartneeds A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem. Walter Darby Bannard haremcriticseye 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 fiftyyearsart The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience. Walter Darby Bannard criteriacultureart 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 no-respectproducediscipline Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly. Walter Darby Bannard excellencecreativemean Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice. Walter Darby Bannard choicessimpleart
