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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.
Wayne Thiebaud
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Wayne Thiebaud
Age: 103
Born: 1920
Born: November 15
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Mesa
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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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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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Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom.
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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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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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Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.
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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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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 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.
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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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Art is not delivered like the morning paper it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.
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I'm not just interested in the pictorial aspects of the landscape - see a pretty place and try to paint it - but in some way to manage it, manipulate it, or see what I can turn it into.
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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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I'm a believer in the notion that artists who do good work believe in the ideas of extremes.
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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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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.
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