Live to paint, don't paint to live.

- Walter Darby Bannard

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

- 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

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

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 anything goes, everything goes.

- Walter Darby Bannard

When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.

- Walter Darby Bannard

Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.

- Walter Darby Bannard