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Wayne Thiebaud Inspirational Quotes (37)

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Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.
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The most important thing is that the work has to be solid [in terms of its formal structure] and that the work accomplishes what it strives to achieve. It has to be genuine - not mannered or stylistically driven.
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A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of a multi-dimension than when it is done directly as a visual recording. This results in a kind of abstraction... and thus avoids the pitfalls of mere decoration.
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We all need critical confrontation of the fullest and most extreme kind that we can get. You can unnecessarily limit yourself by choosing your criticism.
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My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
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Art is not delivered like the morning paper it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.
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Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.
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Art is one of the dirtiest words in our language it's mucked up with all kinds of meanings. There's the art of plumbing there's the art of almost anything that you can say.
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If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.
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The Gold Rush and the Pony Express made Sacramento a substantial place in terms of enterprise.
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I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.
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Diebenkorn was a very good critic, a very tough critic, tough on himself, tough on others. He expected the finest.
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Art is not delivered like the morning paper it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.
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