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

• Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Boredom, Wheels

• Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Freedom, Character

• Art rides in on pleasure.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Pleasure

• There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Magazines, Recognition

• Art is like a butterfly fluttering in a meadow. Analysis of art is like a butterfly on a pin. Each has its value, but we must always be aware of the difference, and what is gained or lost.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Butterfly, Differences

• When you write something new about science, other scientists may not like it but they pay attention because it is subject to proof. When you write something new about art, it is subject only to the reader's discomfort, and will probably be rejected.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Writing, Attention

• Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Simple, Choices

• Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Past, Greatness

• The power of art is not in communication but effect; what it does, not what it relates.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Communication, Power

• Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Looks, Renewal

• Art flows more easily when you are not thinking about what 'should' be in it or how it 'should' be done. The Impressionists taught us to look and see, not assume.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Thinking, Taught Us

• Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Writing, Art Is

• 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

• 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

• 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 is there for nourishment, not explication.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Satisfaction, Art Is

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