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William Wiley

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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 Wiley


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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 Wiley


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


— William Wiley


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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 Wiley


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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 Wiley


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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 Wiley


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


— William Wiley


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


— William Wiley


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About William Wiley






Did you know about William Wiley?

He entered the Navy on 2 April 1803 and was assigned to the schooner Enterprise in the Mediterranean Squadron. After attaining the rates of boatswain boatswain's mate and then a reduction to quartermaster Wiley took part in the daring raid led by Lieutenant Stephen Decatur Jr. Quartermaster Wiley was transferred to the brig Scourge soon thereafter and this is where his documentary trail ends.

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