92 Quotes by Walter Darby Bannard

Art rides in on pleasure.

Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.

Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.

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

Truth is not always hard to find; it is often staring you in the face. The problem with truth is that it is hard to believe. It is even harder to get other people to believe.

Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.

Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.

Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.

If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality.