10 Quotes by Billy Cannon

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.