Billy Cannon Quotes

• Self-taught are those without formal education. Most self-taught artists have missing ingredients to their work.

  Billy Cannon

  Teaching, Artist, Self

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• Stories are best when they 'emerge' from the depths, and when built in a painting from early sketch through the three-act process to The End, it is a perfect pathway to the unconscious stories set in our dreamwork.

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  Perfect, Pathways, Depth

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• All artists are protected by copyright... and we should be the first to respect copyright.

  Billy Cannon

  Artist, Firsts, Plagiarism

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• Flat fields produce mediocre grapes, but rolling hills produce the greatest grapes. Why? Because the vines must struggle for survival.

  Billy Cannon

  Struggle, Survival, Rolling

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• Speaking of line, what artist of line was ever able to find more depth and volume than Hirschfeld? He was an illustrator and a caricaturist, but first and foremost, an artist.

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  Artist, Depth, Lines

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• It is a lifetime effort to come to grips with being an artistic person.

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  Effort, Artistic, Lifetime

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• How do you define a poet? It's very simple. Anyone declaring that he is a poet, is a poet.

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  Simple, Poetry, Poet

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• Then again, if the plant is slow growing, and you are getting older, you may want to start with a larger plant. I find myself buying larger plants each year.

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  Death, Years, Getting Older

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• A basis for much of the pain women suffer in real life is they must somehow resolve their devotion to men.

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  Pain, Real, Men

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• Mozart. Vivaldi. Van Gogh. Stretched their genius on struggle, stress and survival.

  Billy Cannon

  Stress, Struggle, Survival

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• The significant element that is common to Rivera, Siqueros, Picasso, Pollock, Van Gogh and Frida Kahlo is the expression of pain.

  Billy Cannon

  Pain, Expression, Suffering

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