Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
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
Soil
Seeds
Talent
Less
Needs
Like
Nourish
Fertile
Seed
More quotes by 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
There is no best way to make art, but there are a lot of better ways.
Walter Darby Bannard
When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.
Walter Darby Bannard
Purplish brown? Let's agree it / is a color so bad we all flee it / it has no good use / so let's name it Puce / from the sound we make when we see it.
Walter Darby Bannard
Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.
Walter Darby Bannard
Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.
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
Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.
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 you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble.
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
Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.
Walter Darby Bannard
When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.
Walter Darby Bannard
Power is like money. Some know how to get it few know how to use it.
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 'about.' Art is.
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
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
When anything goes, everything goes.
Walter Darby Bannard
