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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.
Wayne Thiebaud
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Wayne Thiebaud
Age: 104
Born: 1920
Born: November 15
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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
My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
Wayne Thiebaud
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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Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.
Wayne Thiebaud
Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.
Wayne Thiebaud
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.
Wayne Thiebaud
Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.
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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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Art is not delivered like the morning paper it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.
Wayne Thiebaud
Morandi gave an intimate view of his deepest thoughts. We watched him inquiring after the devilish questions of essences and substances.
Wayne Thiebaud
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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Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom.
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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.
Wayne Thiebaud
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.
Wayne Thiebaud
I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.
Wayne Thiebaud
Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.
Wayne Thiebaud
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.
Wayne Thiebaud
If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective
Wayne Thiebaud
Art is not delivered like the morning paper it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.
Wayne Thiebaud
Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.
Wayne Thiebaud
