William Wiley — American Soldier

William Wiley was a sailor of the United States Navy in the 19th century who served in the First Barbary War... (wikipedia)

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.
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.
We're all kind of basically involved in the same thing, putting up a blank of some kind and filling it in.
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.
I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die.