It's unfortunate that all business gets painted as wanting to oppose the environment and slow change.
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Indeed, the economy and the environment need not be seen in opposition.
Politicians usually get the blame for dragging their feet on environmental issues. And fair enough. Most of them do just that. But the blame isn't theirs alone. For politicians afraid of losing votes, a bristling media waiting to transform good green ideas into monsters is a colossal disincentive.
Politics is the art of controlling your environment.
The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.
It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.
Can you imagine what a different world we will live in when businesses do what's right for the communities and the environment in everything they do?
The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.
Painting was a problem - you produce a thing, and then you sell it and get money, and that was quickly considered totally uncool.
Making art in America is sort of a political statement in and of itself. It's not the best environment for that sometimes.
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