You have to expect spiritual warfare whenever you stand up for righteousness or call attention to basic values. It's just a matter of light battling the darkness. But the light wins every time. You can't throw enough darkness on light to put it out.
People are reminded that it's not all ugliness in the world.
High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental.
The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist.
With whatever talent and resources I have, I'm trying to bring light to penetrate the darkness many people feel.
I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney, in that I really like to make people happy.
