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Morandi suggests we are all single in this world, hoping for independent repose. But our best opportunity for a community of excellence depends upon a collection of enlightened individuals.
Wayne Thiebaud
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Wayne Thiebaud
Age: 103
Born: 1920
Born: November 15
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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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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.
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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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My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
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Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.
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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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When you think of painting as painting it is rather absurd. The real world is before us - glorious sunlight and activity and fresh air, and high speed motor cars and television, all the animation - a world apart from a little square of canvas that you smear paint on.
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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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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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Painting is more important than art.
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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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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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