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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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Art is not delivered like the morning paper it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.
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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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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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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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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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I'm a believer in the notion that artists who do good work believe in the ideas of extremes.
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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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As far as I'm concerned, there is only one study and that is the way in which things relate to one another.
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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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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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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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Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.
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