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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.
Wayne Thiebaud
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Wayne Thiebaud
Age: 104
Born: 1920
Born: November 15
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Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.
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A painter is always overjoyed when anybody pays any attention to him at all, puts him in any category, calls him anything - as long as they call him something.
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