Walter Darby Bannard Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Art Is

• If we see an object as a bowl, it may inhibit seeing it as craft, just as seeing it as craft might inhibit seeing it as art. See first; name later.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Names, Vision

• Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Turns, Ifs

• 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

  Art, Loss, Understanding

• Art is not 'about.' Art is.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Art Is

• Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, People, Lucky

• Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Hope, Art, Trying

• Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Privilege, May

• Art is there for nourishment, not explication.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Satisfaction, Art Is

• Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Swimming, Underwater

• In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Mistake, Way

• Most art is just surface noise.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Criticism, Noise

• Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us beyond language.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Wall, Labels

• 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

  Running, Art, Writing

• Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Doe, Needs

• Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Ideas, Burden

• Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Writing, Advice

• 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

  Art, Needs, Looks

• To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from the past when we see it freshly.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Past, Yesterday

• A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Ideas, Quality

• In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Standards, Good And Bad

• Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Quality, Facts

• Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Knowing, Something Better

• 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

  Art, Years, Fifty

• It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Giving, Doe

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