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William Wiley
American
Soldier
About the author
The whole Disney thing is really interesting, in a way, how that's so permeated life and the world and the planet.
William Wiley,
American
Soldier
#Life
#World
#Disney
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.
William Wiley,
American
Soldier
#Family
#Influence
#Mother
#Irish
#Nationality
We're all kind of basically involved in the same thing, putting up a blank of some kind and filling it in.
William Wiley,
American
Soldier
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.
William Wiley,
American
Soldier
#Possibilities
#English
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.
William Wiley,
American
Soldier
#Painting
#Thoughts
I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die.
William Wiley,
American
Soldier
#Time
#Right
#Day
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.
William Wiley,
American
Soldier
#Being
#Pretty
#Age
#Education
#Artist
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.
William Wiley,
American
Soldier
#Reason
#Thought
#Desire
#Painting
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.
William Wiley,
American
Soldier
#Kids
#Being
#Pretty
#School
#Artists
#Poets