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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
Artist
Cartoonist
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Mesa
Arizona
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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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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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My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
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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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Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.
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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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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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Diebenkorn was a very good critic, a very tough critic, tough on himself, tough on others. He expected the finest.
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