David Driskell:

For me as a teacher, um, I always felt it was my duty, my responsibility, to challenge my students, to see above and beyond the ordinary to. I would very often play devil’s advocate about things in the class, just to see were they thinking beyond what they read in the text. And, um, um, but I wanted them to, to, to understand that art for me, uh, has the spiritual place in our lives. It takes us to another domain, another dimension, it is, um, Rola May, the psychologist writer says that when artists, uh, get into their craft and get involved with it, they must realize they’re competing with the angels. Uh, the sensibility of being above and beyond the ordinary. Otherwise we’d all be artists <laugh>, you know, and, and I often say, well, think of what the world would be like without the vision of the artist, uh, dull, dull, dull, and, and, uh, that sensibility, which the artist brings.