William T. Wiley Quotes
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I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any desire to. I didn't think there was any reason to.
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All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated, or brainwashed.
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It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with.
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You can't automate in the arts. Since the sixteenth century there has been no change in the number of people necessary to produce Hamlet.
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I'm just a landscape painter. I look out the window and I see what's going on, and I paint it. While I'm painting it, I also write thoughts about what I see going on out there.
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I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die.
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Art! What a concept! It saved my life! A place where you can do as you please!
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The whole Disney thing is really interesting, in a way, how that's so permeated life and the world and the planet.
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I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education.
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We're all kind of basically involved in the same thing, putting up a blank of some kind and filling it in.