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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
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Wayne Thiebaud
Age: 104
Born: 1920
Born: November 15
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Mesa
Arizona
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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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A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of a multi-dimension than when it is done directly as a visual recording. This results in a kind of abstraction... and thus avoids the pitfalls of mere decoration.
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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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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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Painting is more important than art.
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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.
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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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Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective
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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.
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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.
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