William Wiley Quotes (12 Quotes)

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.

Richland, Washington... It's one of the most polluted areas on the planet. It's so polluted, they don't think they can ever clean it up.

The whole Disney thing is really interesting, in a way, how that's so permeated life and the world and the planet.

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.

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.

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.

Irish is the prominent nationality in the family, but beyond that, I really don't know. I see a lot of artistic or creative influence coming through on my mother's side.

We're all kind of basically involved in the same thing, putting up a blank of some kind and filling it in.

As a kid, I spent a lot of time in the country, with animals. Had a horse, I guess about three different horses. Dogs. I spent a lot of time outside.

I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die.

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.

I never really worked with watercolor very much. I messed with water-based paints in high school and stuff, and out of the Northwest that was a more acceptable tradition as a main voice, you know, with Graves and Toby.