92 Quotes by Walter Darby Bannard

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.

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

Art is there for nourishment, not explication.

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

Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.

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

When anyone can produce dreck or publish gibberish, and not only get away with it but be celebrated for it, the discipline is no longer a discipline, and it will get no respect.

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.

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.