Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Walter Darby Bannard
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: January 1
Died: 2016
Died: October 2
Painter
Printmaker
New Haven
Connecticut
Darby Bannard
W. Darby Bannard
Walter Bannard
Better
Critics
Look
Courses
Looks
Course
Needs
Looking
Fixing
Time
Keep
Sends
Art
Studio
Anything
Studios
Back
Patience
More quotes by Walter Darby Bannard
The power of art is not in communication but effect what it does, not what it relates.
Walter Darby Bannard
Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
Walter Darby Bannard
Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.
Walter Darby Bannard
We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.
Walter Darby Bannard
Power is like money. Some know how to get it few know how to use it.
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
Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.
Walter Darby Bannard
The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.
Walter Darby Bannard
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
A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.
Walter Darby Bannard
Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.
Walter Darby Bannard
When you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable.
Walter Darby Bannard
Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.
Walter Darby Bannard
Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.
Walter Darby Bannard
Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
Walter Darby Bannard
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
When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.
Walter Darby Bannard
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
One needs to be right before getting righteous.
Walter Darby Bannard
It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?
Walter Darby Bannard
