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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.
Wayne Thiebaud
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Wayne Thiebaud
Age: 103
Born: 1920
Born: November 15
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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'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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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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