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I certainly and deliberately introduced a great deal of variety into the people in the clamshell, which I suppose grows out of growing up in an individualistic society we profess to have.

Bill Reid

Great art must be a living thing, or it is not art at all.
BILL REID

Art Great Living Things
I’ve never felt that I was doing something for my people, except what I could to bring the accomplishments of the old ones to the attention of the world.
BILL REID

Art Thinking Unique
I certainly and deliberately introduced a great deal of variety into the people in the clamshell, which I suppose grows out of growing up in an individualistic society we profess to have.
BILL REID

Growing Individuality Introduced People Society Up
I have a sort of waking nightmare: to get this thing just about completed, and the last day to discover one little part that doesn’t quite fit with the adjacent part.
BILL REID

Anxiety Completed Lasts Little Littles Part
It’s hard to understand how you arrive at a design. It’s far too complicated to get any overall picture of.
BILL REID

Complicated Design Hard
I consider myself one of the most fortunate of men, to have lived at a time when some of the old Haidas and their peers among the Northwest Coast peoples were still alive, and to have had the privilege of knowing them.
BILL REID

Alive Gratitude Knowing Men Privilege
I think the Northwest Coast style of art is an absolutely unique product, one of the crowning achievements of the whole human experience. I just don’t want the whole thing swept under the carpet without someone paying attention to it.
BILL REID

Achievement Attention Carpet Experience Saying
But I didn’t think about this beforehand. I just went ahead and did it, and that’s the way it turned out. So I guess there are lots of paradoxes which I’ll leave for other people to unscramble.
BILL REID

Ahead Guess Paradoxes People Thinking Way
I have created the Raven in my own image over the years and insist that mine is the version of this personality that is correct – well, at least it is correct as far as I am concerned.
BILL REID

Concerned Insist Personality Ravens Version Years

I certainly and deliberately introduced a great deal of variety into the people in the clamshell, which I suppose grows out of growing up in an individualistic society we profess to have.

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