Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly. Walter Darby Bannard More Quotes by Walter Darby Bannard More Quotes From Walter Darby Bannard Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art. Walter Darby Bannard art-iswritingart When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion. Walter Darby Bannard landscapeassumingreal Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's. Walter Darby Bannard modernismpostmodernismalzheimers If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality. Walter Darby Bannard perceptionrealityway When anything can be art, art is not much of anything. Walter Darby Bannard art-isart When anything goes, everything goes. Walter Darby Bannard anything-goesstandards Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away. Walter Darby Bannard boredomwheelsart The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious. Walter Darby Bannard obviousresponsibilityfirsts 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 soiltalentneeds Live to paint, don't paint to live. Walter Darby Bannard live-lifepaintlife Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time. Walter Darby Bannard modernismpostmodernismsilly Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air. Walter Darby Bannard ambitionairreality 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 adjustingrealityart A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it. Walter Darby Bannard qualityideasart Power is like money. Some know how to get it; few know how to use it. Walter Darby Bannard know-howpoweruse Art is too popular. If plumbing was as popular as art is we would have amateur plumbers running around brandishing wrenches and Roto-Rooters, climbing in and out of sewers and writing gibberish about pipe systems. And none of our our toilets would work. Walter Darby Bannard writingrunningart Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas. Walter Darby Bannard usemindideas Art is not 'about.' Art is. Walter Darby Bannard art-isart 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 art-ishappensart Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one. Walter Darby Bannard privilegemayart
