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Many people look but they do not see.
Don't dress for fashion, dress for yourself
When life closes a door, God opens a window.
I was always busy doing something, being an only child.
Stop making sense. Logic is predictable. Think differently.
When knowledge is scant or conflicting, folklore takes over.
I'm very curious and being childlike is vital in our industry
Experience is the best teacher. A compelling story is a close second.
Fashion is about today and tomorrow. Nobody cares how good you used to be
I was always kind of naïve, and really needed to be given some direction.
Even today, the bigger the city, the better. That's why I live in New York.
The Japanese are hard to understand, but once you do the world is your oyster.
What I adore is mixing the unexpected, things you don't imagine should go together
You can find inspiration in everything. If you can't, then you're not looking properly.
There's always an important person who helps support your interests and encourages you.
People, even children, aren't really afraid of change. They're afraid of not being prepared for change.
Maybe that's what I've based my career on: getting up earlier than everyone else so I get an extra couple of hours.
In a social studies class I did a paper on the history of Attica, which ended up being a little book that I created.
I was engaged in all the required courses of math and geometry, but the area that I blossomed in was the art program.
My parents never prevented me from doing anything, but they didn't have the knowledge of the arts that Mrs. Ranger had.
I think I was really naïve. I had no context to think about what I wanted to do. Each step was a next stage of exploration.
Upon graduation, in the yearbook I was voted "Most likely to succeed." which I know was credited to my artistic achievements.
I was there [in school] the full time with one teacher, and the student body was never more than 10 or 12 students of all ages.
At school there were some programs in music. I did take piano lessons, and we had a piano at home. I got very interested in that.
There was a certain amount of discipline, I think; my parents wanted to be sure that I was not just sitting around doing nothing.
Charles Burchfield was exceptional. As such an accomplished artist, he had limited previous association with academia and teaching.
At home, the radio was a big source and the classic radio programs we would listen to like Amos and Andy and whatever other ones there were.
I was painting furniture, learning to stencil, and explore all kinds of traditional techniques of decoration. I learned from books that I picked up.
It [piano lessons] wasn't a priority, but it was an interest and through that I became acquainted with classical music, which was a main interest at the time.
Going back to the elementary school days, I was always drawing. I entered a Victory poster competition and won the top award that recognized my artistic instincts.
I was always making things. I made model airplanes and did a number of hands-on activities. I liked creating in some form or another, not realizing what it was all about.
There were neighbors that I played with and did all the things that children do. I did mow the lawn. I did help with various things that needed to be done to occupy my time.
I developed friends in the community that were in walking distance or a bicycle ride away, so that I socialized and did a lot of things that children do in their early years.
The pastors and ministry leaders came away energized to have voter registration drives at their churches and motivated to encourage their congregations to "vote their values."
I've always been a keen cyclist, I'm very close to the world of cycling. Not just cycling really - also walking, adventures, being a curious person, traveling to new countries.
I know that I was conscious of all the aspects of the war, having had cousins who were in the army, who would send me notes and memorabilia. I began to collect things that they would send me.
Fortunately, I had cousins who lived in Buffalo and would often go to visit them, which I loved to do because I liked Buffalo as it was a big city. Even today, the bigger the city, the better.
Being born in '31 was during the Depression and in my earlier youth World War II took place - so it was not the best of times, and yet I don't recall ever having experiences that were a burden.
It was mainly a growing farm, although we did have chickens and a few animals, but I did help to some degree with that. I have to say that it was not my favorite association.I did what I was asked to do.
The environment itself was culturally a vacuum, in that there was simply nothing that would inspire me in the arts. But my parents were always very supportive of anything that I explored or wanted to do.
He [my father] didn't have a basement workshop as such, but I know that he did build things, construct things, repair things. My mother, likewise, was sewing and doing activities that often take place in a household.
My parents' names were Florian and Mabel Smith. My mother's maiden name was Dersam. They were of German heritage and were part of a family community with my grandparents and uncles and relatives. I was an only child.
We've got a nation of people who have one eye looking out for the next speed camera, another looking for a speed limit sign and another looking at the speedometer - which is a bit of a shame, when you only have two eyes.
At one point I had dreams of being in the school band, but I didn't play an instrument that qualified me, and that was a problem. I always had fantasies to be part of that, but I did take my piano lessons quite seriously.
The class situation [at Art Institute on Elmwood Avenue] was such that one would be very much on their own to paint or draw. The faculty was roving to give opinions or help out technically, which all the faculty did very well.
I became a bit of a teacher's pet, and it became known in the school by both faculty and students that I really excelled in the arts. So that recognition I credit for my growing interest in art that continued to evolve later on.
One association with the arts that I vividly remember was a magazine called Normal Instructor, a teachers' magazine, that Miss George would hold up with illustrations of great artworks like [Vincent] van Gogh and Rembrandt [van Rijn].
I think it was interesting that when you're in those formative years you respond to things that interest you and don't always know where they lead. But they accumulate and add up to something that enriches your later life or leads you to some new experience.
Christianity began in Palestine as an experience, it moved to Greece and became a philosophy, it moved to Italy and became an institution, it moved to Europe and became a culture, and it moved to America and became a business! We've left the experience long behind.
I learned from books that I picked up. That was something that just came out of nowhere but continued to be an attraction. So there was a continuum of my interest in the arts and involvement in creating that was strong enough that it later blossomed into much more.