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title: "2 Raven Quotes By Bill Reid"
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> [It suits my own attitude toward the world and its people to believe that the Raven is this completely self-centered, uninvolved bringer of change, through inadvertence and accident, and so on... It's a version of the Raven myth for today,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-reid/it-suits-my-own-attitude-toward-the-world-and-its-people-to-believe/)

[Bill Reid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-reid/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b1/bill-reid-43276_accidents_it-suits-my-own-attitude-toward-the-worl_544768.jpg)

> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-reid/i-have-created-the-raven-in-my-own-image-over-the-years-and-insist/)

[Bill Reid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-reid/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/02f/bill-reid-43276_concerned_i-have-created-the-raven-in-my-own-image_964760.jpg)

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## More by Bill Reid

> [It's hard to understand how you arrive at a design. It's far too complicated to get any overall picture of.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-reid/it-s-hard-to-understand-how-you-arrive-at-a-design-it-s-far-too/)

[Bill Reid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-reid/)

> [It suits my own attitude toward the world and its people to believe that the Raven is this completely self-centered, uninvolved bringer of change,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-reid/it-suits-my-own-attitude-toward-the-world-and-its-people-to-believe/)

[Bill Reid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-reid/)

> [I have created the Raven in my own image over the years and insist that mine is the version of this personality that is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-reid/i-have-created-the-raven-in-my-own-image-over-the-years-and-insist/)

[Bill Reid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-reid/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-reid/but-i-didn-t-think-about-this-beforehand-i-just-went-ahead-and-did-it/)

[Bill Reid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-reid/)

> [Great art must be a living thing, or it is not art at all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-reid/great-art-must-be-a-living-thing-or-it-is-not-art-at-all/)

[Bill Reid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-reid/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-reid/i-ve-never-felt-that-i-was-doing-something-for-my-people-except-what/)

[Bill Reid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-reid/)

> [I certainly and deliberately introduced a great deal of variety into the people in the clamshell, which I suppose grows out of growing up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-reid/i-certainly-and-deliberately-introduced-a-great-deal-of-variety-into/)

[Bill Reid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-reid/)

> [I have a sort of waking nightmare: to get this thing just about completed, and the last day to discover one little part that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-reid/i-have-a-sort-of-waking-nightmare-to-get-this-thing-just-about/)

[Bill Reid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-reid/)

> [I consider myself one of the most fortunate of men, to have lived at a time when some of the old Haidas and their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-reid/i-consider-myself-one-of-the-most-fortunate-of-men-to-have-lived-at-a/)

[Bill Reid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-reid/)

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