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If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective
Wayne Thiebaud
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Wayne Thiebaud
Age: 103
Born: 1920
Born: November 15
Artist
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University Teacher
Mesa
Arizona
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More quotes by Wayne Thiebaud
Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.
Wayne Thiebaud
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.
Wayne Thiebaud
The figures... are not supposed to reveal anything... It's like seeing a stranger in some place like an air terminal for the first time. You look at him, you notice his shoes, his suit, the pin in his lapel, but you don't have any particular feeling about him.
Wayne Thiebaud
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.
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
If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.
Wayne Thiebaud
Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.
Wayne Thiebaud
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.
Wayne Thiebaud
If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective
Wayne Thiebaud
Painting is more important than art.
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
Art is not delivered like the morning paper it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.
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
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
I don't make a lot of distinctions between things like landscape or figure painting, because to me the problems are inherently the same - lighting, color, structure, and so on - certainly traditional and ordinary problems.
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
Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.
Wayne Thiebaud
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
Diebenkorn was a very good critic, a very tough critic, tough on himself, tough on others. He expected the finest.
Wayne Thiebaud
I'm a believer in the notion that artists who do good work believe in the ideas of extremes.
Wayne Thiebaud
