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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.

Wayne White

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Wayne White
Age: 103
Born: 1920
Born: November 15
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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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But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction.
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I'm a sign painter with no boss.
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I would advise puppeteering for any artist. It's a way to break down pretensions. It's a sculpture that can talk. It's a painting that can talk. And it's pure play. I think every artist needs to stay in touch with the idea of playing. The artist should always be playing, always. All art is performance.
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All I'm really concerned with is doing my thing.
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The only tip I have for an artist is perseverance... Never give up.
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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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Making art is nothing but risk, always. If it's not risk, it's no good.
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I'm thankful for the big stuff of course-my family, health, human kindness. But I'm also thankful that I don't have to work for Hollywood anymore.
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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've been around Hollywood and filmmaking long enough to know that it's a tricky dangerous business when you go on camera, you got to watch yourself.
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I want to reach out and entertain people. I want people to come to a museum that have never been in a museum before. I want also to have enough art references in it that would satisfy the most sophisticated museum goer.
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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 hate people who act too cool for school. Just own up to it, dude.
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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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Do what you love. It’s going to lead to where you want to go.
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I want to communicate. I do every artist does. That's why you're an artist.
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I have some sort of performing gene that's just there and I cannot explain it but I want to connect with people through a camera or on a stage. I just can do it. I just have an intuitive sense of it. So I love doing that, I love going into that trance.
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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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Art should be as inclusive as possible. That's why I like bringing the low form of puppetry and elevating it into a sculpture form, but it's still a puppet also.
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