23 Quotes by Howard Finster

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    When I'm makin' lectures to these universities, I tell 'em I like that little building because when I run short a audience, if I can get three people in there I've got a good crowd.

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    Every time that we've ever fought, we fought to keep from bein' destroyed. We've never started a war.

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    But, when I had this feeling and started painting sacred art, as I had this feeling to do, then it come to me: my problem is I'll get a lot of criticism and another problem is my work's not good enough to sell.

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    You know, I been accused - people call me crazy like they did Noah, you know. Some people think I'm insane, like, maybe a percentage like insane?

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    And I just started a church. I called it the World's Folk Art Church. I bought this old church. There was no deacons or pastors or anything.

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    So all I have to do is just when that Holy Spirit says to do something, I know that's supposed to be done, regardless to anything else.

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    I took the pieces you threw away, put them together by night and day. Washed by the rain. Dried by the sun. A million pieces all in one.

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    And since they wasn't able to turn my art over, I sort of just switched off to Phyllis Kind, she's really my agent. She has a gallery in Chicago.

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