Billy Cannon quotes:

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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.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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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