Howard Finster Quotes

• You can’t smear acrylics, you know, it dries too fast.

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• When I’m makin’ lectures to these universities, I tell ’em I like that little building because when I run short a audience, if I can get three people in there I’ve got a good crowd.

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• When I’m building my dome in my chapel, and I had a vision – I’ve worked on perpetual motion and I haven’t never give it up yet. I still think it could be done, perpetual motion. I had a vision of a un resist able windmill.

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• Well, as far as I’m concerned, I’m not here to live a normal life. I’m sent here on a mission.

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• Sometimes I don’t even pull my shoes off for six weeks at a time, except, you know, just to take a shower. I just take breaks between 24 hours a day, just a break now and then, it don’t take me long to rest; maybe 20 to30 minutes sometime, or maybe an hour.

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• My work begun to spread out. And calls to the universities begun to take me out of my garden, you know.

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• I never did buy things on credit, I always paid for ’em, because I can’t see much difference in paying for something and just waiting a week and pay interest on it; that looks foolish to me.

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• I had a call to the University of Miami where I’d run a revival in 1950.

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• I came here as a man of visions. I was sent here as a man of visions, like a second Noah. I’m not a Noah but I’m here as a second Noah. I’m here as a red light is in the street.

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• Every time that we’ve ever fought, we fought to keep from bein’ destroyed. We’ve never started a war.

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• But, when I had this feeling and started painting sacred art, as I had this feeling to do, then it come to me: my problem is I’ll get a lot of criticism and another problem is my work’s not good enough to sell.

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• As for me, I’m just passin’ through this planet.

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Birth:	2nd December, 1916
Death:	22nd October, 2001
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Artist, Pastor

About

Howard Finster was born in Valley Head, Alabama, USA. He was an American artist and pastor. He claimed to be inspired by God to spread the gospel through the design of his swampy land into Paradise Gardens, a folk art sculpture garden with over 46,000 pieces of art. His creations include outsider art, naïve art, and visionary art. He first came to widespread notice in the 1980s with his album cover designs for R.E.M. and Talking Heads. He gave the occasional sermon at local churches and wrote articles for the town newspaper, and became a full-time pastor at Rock Bridge Baptist Church in 1940.

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