"Every man should see the birth of his children"

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Dennis Banks

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“In terms of having to uphold something, I don't need any added pressure. I need to be free in the work.”

Source : "Sonja Sohn ReWires Baltimore". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. March 15, 2012.
“Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion-I've worked with my best friends in direct competition.”
“Did you know that the worldwide food shortage that threatens up to five hundred million children could be alleviated at the cost of only one day, only one day, of modern warfare.”
“The essential of painting is that 'something', that 'ethereal glue,' that 'intermediary product' which the artist exudes with all his creative being and which he has the power to place, to encrust, to impregnate into the pictorial matter of the painting.”
“Time pressures are a reality of business life that cannot be eliminated entirely and that even can create a beneficial focus at times, it can be powerful to set aside discrete occasions where individuals are invited to step back, to look at their projects from different vantages, to consider input not usually examined, and so on. This again encourages folks to express alternative points of view.”
“My whole career I've been interested by the distinction between an emotional and an intellectual response to an artwork.”

Source : "Sculptures that engage your heart - and expand your mind". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. July 3, 2011.
“It is notorious that we speak no more than half-truths in our ordinary conversation, and even a soliloquy is likely to be affected by the apprehension that walls have ears.”
“Love of country follows from the exercise of its freedoms, not from pride in its fleets or its armies.”

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