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Exposing something that's painful or raw or not so pleasant. That seems to be the dramatic motor of documentaries, exposure.

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Wayne White
Age: 104
Born: 1920
Born: November 15
Artist
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Morton Wayne Thiebaud
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When we see something beautiful it calls up raw, naked emotion and that's an embarrassing situation to be in.
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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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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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It's about communication, no matter how impossibly hard your art is to understand and how much of an ivory tower or high horse you get on, it's still basically communication or why are you doing it?
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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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It would be really embarrassing to introduce yourself as somebody who makes beauty.
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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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I can't help it. I always focus in on the negative.
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As far as I'm concerned, there is no line between high art and pop art, and there should be no line.
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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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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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Some of these bulls are gonna' spin those cowboys so fast, they'll look like a frog in a blender.
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Making art is nothing but risk, always. If it's not risk, it's no good.
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Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency.
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All I do is work, that's all my life is work.
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No matter how much I'm on and people are loving me, there's always some like, and it's usually a woman too, in the audience rolling her eyes, Oh Wayne, you're embarrassing yourself. There's always someone like that.
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Follow your heart, and your pleasure in art. Don’t do what you think is going to be making you money, or what you’re parents want you to do, or what that beautiful girl or guy thinks you should be doing. Do what you love. It’s going to lead to where you want to go. Go out there and make the world more beautiful. I know you can.
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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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I'm just a mule with blinders on, I can't help myself.
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