Flat fields produce mediocre grapes, but rolling hills produce the greatest grapes. Why? Because the vines must struggle for survival.

Stories are best when they ’emerge’ from the depths, and when built in a painting from early sketch through the three-act process to The End, it is a perfect pathway to the unconscious stories set in our dreamwork.
BILLY CANNON

Depth Pathways Perfect Stories Unconcious
It is a lifetime effort to come to grips with being an artistic person.
BILLY CANNON

Artistic Effort Lifetime
Mozart. Vivaldi. Van Gogh. Stretched their genius on struggle, stress and survival.
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Stress Struggle Survival
Flat fields produce mediocre grapes, but rolling hills produce the greatest grapes. Why? Because the vines must struggle for survival.
BILLY CANNON

Rolling Struggle Survival
All artists are protected by copyright… and we should be the first to respect copyright.
BILLY CANNON

Artist Firsts Plagiarism
Speaking of line, what artist of line was ever able to find more depth and volume than Hirschfeld? He was an illustrator and a caricaturist, but first and foremost, an artist.
BILLY CANNON

Artist Depth Illustrator Lines
A basis for much of the pain women suffer in real life is they must somehow resolve their devotion to men.
BILLY CANNON

Men Pain Real Women
The significant element that is common to Rivera, Siqueros, Picasso, Pollock, Van Gogh and Frida Kahlo is the expression of pain.
BILLY CANNON

Expression Pain Suffering

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