“Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.” Quote by Walter Darby Bannard
“Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.” ArtMatterChoicesSimpleCarrieCasualSeemingGood ArtDensity Author:Walter Darby Bannard
“Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.” PeopleIfsArtReasonLuckyCollectorsWrong Reasons Author:Walter Darby Bannard
“Purplish brown? Let's agree it / is a color so bad we all flee it / it has no good use / so let's name it Puce / from the sound we make when we see it.” UseNamesSoundColorAgreeColourBrown Author:Walter Darby Bannard
“I don't fall into the category of tortured artist. But it's not made me more or less anything.” MadeArtistFallCategoriesTortured Artists Author:Noel Gallagher
“Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.” ConfidenceAssumptionPresumptuous Author:Walter Darby Bannard
“Of course I will look at anything, but I have not got the time or the patience to keep on looking at art that I know could be better. I don't want art that needs fixing, I want art that sends me back to the studio to fix my own.” KnowsWantNeedsLooksArtCoursesMy OwnCriticsStudiosFixing Author:Walter Darby Bannard
“A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.” EyeCriticsHaremEunuchs Author:Walter Darby Bannard
“No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism.” YearsHas BeensArtProblemAbleLastsTermPainterFiftyCubism Author:Walter Darby Bannard
“The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.” ArtCultureConsensusCriteriaConvenience Author:Walter Darby Bannard