Quotes by Walter Darby Bannard

Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.

-Walter Darby Bannard

We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.

-Walter Darby Bannard

Live to paint, don’t paint to live.

-Walter Darby Bannard

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Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
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Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.

-Walter Darby Bannard

One needs to be right before getting righteous.

-Walter Darby Bannard

Art is not ‘about.’ Art is.

-Walter Darby Bannard

Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.

-Walter Darby Bannard

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

-Walter Darby Bannard

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Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.
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Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.

-Walter Darby Bannard