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Darby Bannard - From the Abstraction category:
When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which echo processes in nature. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Advice category:
Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Application category:
Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Appreciation category:
You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Art category:
Art is not 'about.' Art is. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Art category:
Whether something is called art is beside the point. What counts is what happens when you ask it to actually be art. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Artists category:
There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Beginning category:
Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Belief category:
One needs to be right before getting righteous. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Boredom category:
Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Choices category:
Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Choices category:
Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Collectors category:
Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Colour category:
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. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Confidence category:
Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Criticism category:
Most art is just surface noise. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Critics category:
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. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Critics category:
A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Cubism category:
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. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Culture category:
The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Discipline category:
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. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Excellence category:
Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Experience category:
We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Expression category:
Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Fashion category:
When imitation goes over big, it isn't imitation, it is a trend. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Freedom category:
Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Freedom category:
The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Greatness category:
Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the History category:
Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Hope category:
Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Ideas category:
Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Ideas category:
When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Illusion category:
Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Imagination category:
Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Imitation category:
When inspiration dies, imitation thrives. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Joy category:
Don't explain, enjoy. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Language category:
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. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Life category:
Live to paint, don't paint to live. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Masters category:
Sometimes Cezanne painted things the way they look when you are looking at
something else. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Masters category:
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. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Meaning category:
When anything can be art, art is not much of anything. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Mediocrity category:
'Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft; it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Memory category:
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. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Methodology category:
There is no best way to make art, but there are a lot of better ways. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Mistakes category:
In art, as in life, the best way to remedy mistakes is to take advantage of them. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Modernism category:
Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Modernism category:
Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Modernism category:
Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Mysteries category:
When you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Originality category:
Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Originality category:
Many years ago, Clement Greenberg said, 'All profoundly original work looks
ugly at first.' This should be updated now to 'All profoundly ugly work looks original at first.' (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Originality category:
Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Painting category:
When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Painting category:
When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Perception category:
If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Perception category:
Always let intuitive perception precede analysis. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Planning category:
Don't plan, prepare. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Pleasure category:
Art rides in on pleasure. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Power category:
The power of art is not in communication but effect; what it does, not what it relates. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Power category:
Power is like money. Some know how to get it; few know how to use it. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Profession category:
Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Profession category:
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. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Quality category:
A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Questions category:
What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead, / green citrus fruit / upon my head. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Questions category:
It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure? (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Reality category:
Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Reality category:
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. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Recognition category:
There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Recognition category:
There's a big difference between grabbing attention and rewarding attention. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Religion category:
Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Renewal category:
Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Responsibility category:
The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Rules category:
When you 'break all the barriers' you get a pile of rubble. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Rules category:
Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Satisfaction category:
Art is there for nourishment, not explication. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Seeing category:
Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Seeing category:
If we see an object as a 'bowl,' it may inhibit seeing it as 'craft,' just as seeing it as 'craft' might inhibit seeing it as 'art.' See first; name later. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Senses category:
Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Solitude category:
An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Standards category:
When anything goes, everything goes. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Standards category:
In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Struggle category:
The struggle to be original hates conformity, but the struggle to be better disregards it, or takes advantage of it to build workable conventions. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Style category:
Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Subject category:
If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Talent category:
Talent is like a seed which needs fertile soil. There is no less talent now, there is less fertile soil to nourish it. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Theory category:
Art is like a butterfly fluttering in a meadow. Analysis of art is like a butterfly on a pin. Each has its value, but we must always be aware of the difference, and what is gained or lost. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Thinking category:
Art flows more easily when you are not thinking about what 'should' be in it or how it 'should' be done. The Impressionists taught us to look and see, not assume. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Timeliness category:
Most 'profound truths' are just timely ideas. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Tradition category:
'Stale artifacts of the past' are always 'active components of the present moment' when they are experienced in the present moment. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Truth category:
We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Truth category:
Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Truth category:
Truth is not always hard to find; it is often staring you in the face. The problem with truth is that it is hard to believe. It is even harder to get other people to believe. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Understanding category:
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. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Unknowns category:
Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Words category:
Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Words category:
'Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Words category:
Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody inside. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Writing category:
When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Writing category:
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. (Darby Bannard)
Darby Bannard - From the Writing category:
Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art. (Darby Bannard)
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