Walter Darby Bannard Quotes
Top 85 wise famous quotes and sayings by Walter Darby Bannard
Walter Darby Bannard Famous Quotes & Sayings
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It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?
Stale artifacts of the past' are always 'active components of the present moment' when they are experienced in the present moment.
Whether something is called art is beside the point. What counts is what happens when you ask it to actually be art.
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.
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.
Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft; it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best.
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.
Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.
Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.
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.
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.
The struggle to be original hates conformity, but the struggle to be better disregards it, or takes advantage of it to build workable conventions.
Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.
The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing.
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.
Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.