Walter Darby Bannard Quotes
When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.
Quotes to Explore
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.
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I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'
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Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you.
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The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.
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As a child, I remember my own intensive interest in biology, birds, other animals and flowers and was determined at an early age to become a scientist.
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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It's really cool when a guy tips 20 per cent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.
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A great revolution is hardest of all on the great revolutionists.
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We shall play every game to the hilt with every ounce of fiber we have in our bodies.
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Something in your voice tells me we approach the question of remuneration.
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Actresses are so spoilt - we have someone who does our hair for us on set, so we don't know how to do it ourselves in real life. I know how to wash my hair and brush my teeth, but that's about it!
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Our communications services revenue growth is being driven by continued strong top-line performance in data, Internet and international - three of the fastest growing and most profitable areas within communications services.
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It's funny. You travel all over the world, and you wind up with a guy from your hometown.
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I hate the word gothic but I would like to try doing something like that. A gothic sound, not rock, but gothic. There's a difference.
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In South Africa, where HIV-positive children are often shunned, we have an HIV-positive Muppet to teach children to be friendly with children with HIV. But they use local actors. And it's not always a street. Sometimes it's 'Sesame Plaza,' or 'Sesame Tree.'
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I entered the modeling industry as a business person already. I always knew I belonged on the other side of the camera.
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The illusion of choice is the greatest magic trick ever performed.
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Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop.
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Each of us is a small part of God's plan. I'm a small part. I create paintings that are being used by God.
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In a painting, what counts is the unexpected.
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To forgive an oppressor is oppression upon the oppressed.
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When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.
