Walter Darby Bannard Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Art Is

• 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

  Art, Names, Vision

• Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Writing, Advice

• 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

  Art, Needs, Looks

• 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

  Art, Past, Yesterday

• A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Ideas, Quality

• Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Doe, Needs

• Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Ideas, Burden

• Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Knowing, Something Better

• 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

  Art, Years, Fifty

• It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Giving, Doe

• In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Standards, Good And Bad

• Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Quality, Facts

• 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, Art Is, Happens

• The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Culture, Criteria

• 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

  Art, Rap, Mediocrity

• Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Reality, Art Is

• Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Inspiration, Style

• Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody inside.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Suits Of Armor, Doe

• There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Artist, Too Much

• Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Expression, Play

• There is no best way to make art, but there are a lot of better ways.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Way, Methodology

• 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

  Art, Reality, Adjusting

• If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Apples, Would Be

• When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Writing, Chance

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