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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: 103
Born: 1920
Born: November 15
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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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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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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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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.
Wayne Thiebaud
I'm a believer in the notion that artists who do good work believe in the ideas of extremes.
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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.
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
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 means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.
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Painting is more important than art.
Wayne Thiebaud
Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.
Wayne Thiebaud
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
Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.
Wayne Thiebaud
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.
Wayne Thiebaud
If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective
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.
Wayne Thiebaud
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.
Wayne Thiebaud
Art is not delivered like the morning paper it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.
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
If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective
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