Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble.
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
Rubble
Pile
Barriers
Break
More quotes by Walter Darby Bannard
Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.
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
Truth is not always hard to find it is often staring you in the face. The problem with truth is that it is hard to believe. It is even harder to get other people to believe.
Walter Darby Bannard
An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
Walter Darby Bannard
Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.
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
Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.
Walter Darby Bannard
We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.
Walter Darby Bannard
Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.
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
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
Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.
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
Many years ago, Clement Greenberg said, 'All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.' This should be updated now to 'All profoundly ugly work looks original at first.
Walter Darby Bannard
Most art is just surface noise.
Walter Darby Bannard
If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.
Walter Darby Bannard
When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.
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
Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.
Walter Darby Bannard
Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.
Walter Darby Bannard
