7 June 2010
Excerpts From The Quotable Bannard
[Via Franklin Einspruch's Journal]
Don’t apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.
Green Valentine #2
Whether something is called art is beside the point. What counts is what happens when you ask it to actually be art.
The Flurry
One needs to be right before getting righteous.
Old Battles
Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.
June Park
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.
Tugman Hills
A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.
Early Riser
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.
Tara's Hammer
Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.
First Strike
The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing.
Calypso
There is no best way to make art, but there are a lot of better ways.
The Prodigal
Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.
Settling
The power of art is not in communication but effect; what it does, not what it relates.
Potatohead Blues
All words and images: Walter Darby Bannard
Posted by MC in Great Minds.
Google sent me this today. Makes me feel as if I have accomplished something. Thanks!
June 8th, 2010 at 5:57 amMy pleasure, Darby. Take the rest of the week off. You’ve done plenty.
June 8th, 2010 at 7:05 am