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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
Artist
Cartoonist
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Mesa
Arizona
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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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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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Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.
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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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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.
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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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If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.
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If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective
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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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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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Painting is more important than art.
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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 Gold Rush and the Pony Express made Sacramento a substantial place in terms of enterprise.
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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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