Bannard Artist Quotes

#1. In you, humanity is precarious; and so, in dread and in shame, you kill the animal in you. And its slaughter poisons you.

Olaf Stapledon

#2. Taxation for public housing destroys as many jobs in other lines as it creates in housing.

Henry Hazlitt

#3. Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

Norman Vincent Peale

#4. Every time I must find something to do that will look like something a little beyond my capabilities.

Italo Calvino

#5. One sees more devils than vast hell can hold

William Shakespeare

#6. Of all literature I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey.

Kwame Nkrumah

#7. There was no need to inform us of the protocol involved. We were from Chicago and knew all about cement.

Groucho Marx

#8. If you're so smart, let's see you get out of the Army.

Casey Stengel

#9. Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.

Walter Darby Bannard

#10. The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing.

Walter Darby Bannard

#11. 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.

Walter Darby Bannard

#12. And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.

George Eliot

#13. He was a top man and a good professional. He was one of those who you know will never play a trick and you can ask him to do anything for you and he will. An unassuming man and a great loss to us all.

Geoffrey Boycott

#14. Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.

Walter Darby Bannard

#15. It is like a voice heard from another room, singing for the pleasure of the song, and then you know it, too, and through you it moves by accident and necessity down generations. Then, why singing? Why pleasure in it? And why the blessing of the moment when another voice is heard, dreaming to itself?

Marilynne Robinson

#16. I think our movie, 'Now You See Me,' is an emotional movie rooted in smart and wits and fully amazing actors working perfectly together. It's like a supergroup of musicians.

Louis Leterrier

#17. There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.

Walter Darby Bannard

#18. 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