Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
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
Critic
Critics
Eye
Without
Good
Eunuch
Harem
Eunuchs
More quotes by Walter Darby Bannard
Most art is just surface noise.
Walter Darby Bannard
Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.
Walter Darby Bannard
Art is not 'about.' Art is.
Walter Darby Bannard
Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to cover the loss of mystery.
Walter Darby Bannard
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
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
There's a big difference between grabbing attention and rewarding attention.
Walter Darby Bannard
Art is there for nourishment, not explication.
Walter Darby Bannard
When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.
Walter Darby Bannard
Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination.
Walter Darby Bannard
Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.
Walter Darby Bannard
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
The power of art is not in communication but effect what it does, not what it relates.
Walter Darby Bannard
In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.
Walter Darby Bannard
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
Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.
Walter Darby Bannard
Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.
Walter Darby Bannard
What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead, / green citrus fruit / upon my head.
Walter Darby Bannard
Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.
Walter Darby Bannard
The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing.
Walter Darby Bannard
