Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.
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
Would
Depended
Apple
Apples
Content
Painting
Next
Art
Good
More quotes by Walter Darby Bannard
Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
Walter Darby Bannard
Live to paint, don't paint to live.
Walter Darby Bannard
Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.
Walter Darby Bannard
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
Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.
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
When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.
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
When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea.
Walter Darby Bannard
There's a big difference between grabbing attention and rewarding attention.
Walter Darby Bannard
Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.
Walter Darby Bannard
Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.
Walter Darby Bannard
Art rides in on pleasure.
Walter Darby Bannard
We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.
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
Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.
Walter Darby Bannard
Power is like money. Some know how to get it few know how to use it.
Walter Darby Bannard
When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble.
Walter Darby Bannard
Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.
Walter Darby Bannard
Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.
Walter Darby Bannard
