Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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.

Walter Darby Bannard's Popular Quotes

Live to paint, don't paint to live.

- Walter Darby Bannard

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.

- Walter Darby Bannard

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.

- Walter Darby Bannard

When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.

- Walter Darby Bannard

Power is like money. Some know how to get it; few know how to use it.

- Walter Darby Bannard

Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.

- Walter Darby Bannard

Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.

- Walter Darby Bannard

When anything goes, everything goes.

- Walter Darby Bannard

When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.

- Walter Darby Bannard