“Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.”
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Famous Walter Darby Bannard Quotes
“Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.”
“There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.”
“Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.”
“Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.”
“Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.”
“Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.”
“Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.”
“There is no best way to make art, but there are a lot of better ways.”
“The power of art is not in communication but effect; what it does, not what it relates.”
“Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.”
“A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.”
“Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.”
“There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.”
“Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.”
“Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.”
“In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.”
“Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.”
“If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.”
“Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.”
“When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.”
“Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.”
“In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them.”