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It was only when I got to high school and was in the art program that my artistic talent was recognized. The art program was directed by a wonderful and a very important person in my life - Charlotte Ranger, who was referred to as Mrs. Ranger. She had been teaching in the school for many years.
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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.
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I was painting furniture, learning to stencil, and explore all kinds of traditional techniques of decoration. I learned from books that I picked up.
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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].
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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.
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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.
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I'm very curious and being childlike is vital in our industry
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I was always busy doing something, being an only child.
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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.
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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.
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What I adore is mixing the unexpected, things you don't imagine should go together
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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.
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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.
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Experience is the best teacher. A compelling story is a close second.
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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.
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Upon graduation, in the yearbook I was voted Most likely to succeed. which I know was credited to my artistic achievements.
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Charles Burchfield would look at what you were working on and not say anything for several minutes. Then he would very sensitively respond - Well, have you thought about? or Might you consider? I respected that so much because I thought he was so sensitive to my work, and didn't want to offend me, but in the right way to encourage me.
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When knowledge is scant or conflicting, folklore takes over.
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Maybe that's what I've based my career on: getting up earlier than everyone else so I get an extra couple of hours.
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Stop making sense. Logic is predictable. Think differently.
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