Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art. Walter Darby Bannard More Quotes by Walter Darby Bannard More Quotes From Walter Darby Bannard Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice. Walter Darby Bannard constructivetoo-muchchoices You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux. Walter Darby Bannard appreciateappreciationmen In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them. Walter Darby Bannard mistakewayart 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 abstract-paintingpatternsechoes Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it. Walter Darby Bannard writingadviceart Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it. Walter Darby Bannard something-betterknowingart There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art. Walter Darby Bannard too-muchartistart Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas. Walter Darby Bannard fresh-ideaspaintingideas One needs to be right before getting righteous. Walter Darby Bannard righteousbeliefneeds Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift. Walter Darby Bannard adriftvisioneye We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation. Walter Darby Bannard explanationpleasureexperience Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades. Walter Darby Bannard expressionplayart When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend. Walter Darby Bannard imitationtrendsfashion There is no best way to make art, but there are a lot of better ways. Walter Darby Bannard methodologywayart 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 feelingsrememberthinking 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 mediocrityrapart 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 we see it freshly. Walter Darby Bannard yesterdaypastart Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion. Walter Darby Bannard paintingrealworld 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 walllabelsart Don't explain, enjoy. Walter Darby Bannard enjoyjoy
