William T. Wiley Quotes

• 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 T. Wiley

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Think, Attracted

• 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 T. Wiley

  Topics in Art, Children

  Tags in Educated

• 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 T. Wiley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nationality, Irish

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

  William T. Wiley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wish, 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.

  William T. Wiley

  Topics in Art, Education

  Tags in Think

• 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 T. Wiley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Painter, Thoughts

• 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 T. Wiley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Speak, Languages, Possibilities

• The live entertainment Canadians like most is the intimate review, a collection of songs and sketches, preferably with a satirical bias.

  William T. Wiley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Acting and the Theatre, Entertainment

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

  William T. Wiley

  Topics in Life

  Tags in World, Interesting

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

  William T. Wiley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Involve

• 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.

  William T. Wiley

  Tags in Acting and the Theatre

William T. Wiley (11)

Birth:	21st October, 1937
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Artist

About

William T. Wiley is a contemporary American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including drawing, painting, sculpture, film, performance, and pinball. At least some of Wiley's work has been referred to as Funk art.

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