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Being an artist is a lifestyle.

Wayne White

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Wayne White
Age: 104
Born: 1920
Born: November 15
Artist
Cartoonist
Illustrator
Muralist
Painter
Printmaker
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University Teacher
Mesa
Arizona
Morton Wayne Thiebaud
Wayne Morton Thiebaud
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The only tip I have for an artist is perseverance... Never give up.
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I practice the artist's golden rule. I wouldn't want somebody telling me how to finish my painting, I'm not going to tell him how to finish his movie or how to shape his movie.
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When I perform I'm very extroverted and I wear my heart on my sleeve and some people don't like that. They're embarrassed for me.
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I throw dignity out the window, and just become a creature of the moment on the stage. I act like I'd never act in real life.
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I hate people who act too cool for school. Just own up to it, dude.
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Making art is nothing but risk, always. If it's not risk, it's no good.
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Do what you love. It’s going to lead to where you want to go.
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I'm a perfectionist I guess. Everyone has to love me.
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All I'm really concerned with is doing my thing.
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When I commit to working with an artist, I give them as much respect as I would like and if I'm not going to commit that way, then I don't want to work with you.
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Puppets are pure form then ideas for performance come out of that. It's always the form and the visuals and that's why I like to make puppets in a gallery or museum. They're not often in those contexts.
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Sheer obstinacy is very very important for anybody who wants to create.
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It would be really embarrassing to introduce yourself as somebody who makes beauty.
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I hate the whole group of artists who are so hermetic and completely indecipherable on some level and they're all proud of themselves for it. It's like, how obnoxious, how pretentious. And that's part of my mission as an artist is to kick down those people or make fun of that type of high horse attitude.
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If they make the deadline because the Shiites and Kurds essentially rammed a draft through over Sunni Arab objections, there will be hell to pay.
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I've been very lucky. I've had three separate careers: freelance illustrator, then set designer, puppetteer and animator, and now fine artist. I just bluffed my way into every one of 'em!
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But I think frustration is hilarious. One of my missions is to bring humor into fine art. It's sacred.
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I'm a sign painter with no boss.
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Puppets allow a person to express things through this surrogate that wouldn't normally get expressed. You know there's famous techniques of puppet therapists. Put this hand puppet on and tell me what the problem is.
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I don't like the idea of busing children all over the country. It's not safe. And there doesn't seem to be that much of an urgent need for it to be done.
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