92 Quotes by Walter Darby Bannard

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.

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.

A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.

Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn’t follow style, it creates it.

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.

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

You don’t have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.

When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.

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.