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Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.
Wayne Thiebaud
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Wayne Thiebaud
Age: 104
Born: 1920
Born: November 15
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Mesa
Arizona
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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.
Wayne Thiebaud
Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.
Wayne Thiebaud
I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.
Wayne Thiebaud
Painting is more important than art.
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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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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.
Wayne Thiebaud
I'm a believer in the notion that artists who do good work believe in the ideas of extremes.
Wayne Thiebaud
I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.
Wayne Thiebaud
My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
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The Gold Rush and the Pony Express made Sacramento a substantial place in terms of enterprise.
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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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Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.
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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.
Wayne Thiebaud
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.
Wayne Thiebaud
Art is not delivered like the morning paper it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.
Wayne Thiebaud
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.
Wayne Thiebaud
An artist has to train his responses more than other people do. He has to be as disciplined as a mathematician. Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom. It prepares an artist to choose his own limitations.
Wayne Thiebaud
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.
Wayne Thiebaud
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.
Wayne Thiebaud
