Howard Finster Quotes

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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.
• I took the pieces you threw away, put them together by night and day. Washed by the rain. Dried by the sun. A million pieces…
• 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…
• Well, as far as I'm concerned, I'm not here to live a normal life. I'm sent here on a mission.
• I never met someone I  did not love.
• You can't smear acrylics, you know, it dries too fast.
• 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…
• 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…
• As for me, I'm just passin' through this planet.
• 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…
• Every time that we've ever fought, we fought to keep from bein' destroyed. We've never started a war.
• I had a call to the University of Miami where I'd run a revival in 1950.
• 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…
• 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…

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