Neil Welliver quotes

“Every painting is a war. You have to struggle every day, and to struggle every day with your inadequacies is a damn nuisance.”
-- Neil Welliver

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“We're antithetical. You use your mind one way; I use mine another. I recognize what you're doing, but I can't imagine it.”
-- Neil Welliver

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“Doubt is a central factor all the time. There's always the doubt: What the hell am I doing out here in the middle of the woods, all alone, painting?”
-- Neil Welliver

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“I paint very directly. I go from top to bottom. When I get to the floor, the painting is finished.”
-- Neil Welliver

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“Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with ribald placards and a brass band, to make war upon the Salvation Army.”

“The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?”

Source : A. J. Muste's statement of 1941, as quoted in Howard Zinn "A People's History" (p. 416), 1980, and later quoted in Howard Zinn "The Twentieth Century: A People's History" (p. 159), May 9, 1984.

“Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.”

“No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.”

“Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.”

Source : A.J.P. Taylor (1996). “Origin Of The Second World War”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

“This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on a scale which no previous age could have dreaded or dreamed of.”

“Educational enterprises do not for any length of time remain immune from the struggle of interests for power which is the dominant feature of social life under a class system.”

Source : "Some Notes on Workers' Education" by A. J. Muste, first published in "New International", Volume 2, No. 7 (pp. 225-227), www.marxists.org. December 1935.

“Those who can bring themselves to renounce wealth, position and power accruing from a social system based on violence and putting a premium on acquisitiveness, and to identify themselves in some real fashion with the struggle of the masses toward the light, may help in a measure - more, doubtless, by life than by words - to devise a more excellent way, a technique of social progress less crude, brutal, costly and slow than mankind has yet evolved.”

Source : "American Power and the New Mandarins". Book by Noam Chomsky, 1969.

“Ten flashing lights are a nuisance but 500 are fantastic.”

“I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.”

Source : Hortense Calisher (2013). “The Collected Stories of Hortense Calisher”, p.629, Open Road Media