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Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.
Wayne Thiebaud
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Wayne Thiebaud
Age: 104
Born: 1920
Born: November 15
Artist
Cartoonist
Illustrator
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Painter
Printmaker
Sculptor
University Teacher
Mesa
Arizona
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Commonplace objects are constantly changing… The pies, for example, we now see, are not going to be around forever. We are merely used to the idea that things do not change.
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I think of myself as a beginner. Sometimes that's the whole joy. If you could just do it, there'd be no point in doing it.
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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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As far as I'm concerned, there is only one study and that is the way in which things relate to one another.
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Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom.
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An artist needs the best studio instruction, the most rigorous demands, and the toughest criticism in order to tune up his sensibilities.
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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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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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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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I'm a believer in the notion that artists who do good work believe in the ideas of extremes.
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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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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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Morandi gave an intimate view of his deepest thoughts. We watched him inquiring after the devilish questions of essences and substances.
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Painting is more important than art.
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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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If I don't have anything better to do that day, I'll copy paintings, generally by people who have some relationship to the work of the moment.
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