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Sheer obstinacy is very very important for anybody who wants to create.

Wayne White

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Wayne White
Age: 103
Born: 1920
Born: November 15
Artist
Cartoonist
Illustrator
Muralist
Painter
Printmaker
Sculptor
University Teacher
Mesa
Arizona
Morton Wayne Thiebaud
Wayne Morton Thiebaud
Obstinacy
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Anybody
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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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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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All I do is work, that's all my life is work.
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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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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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I can't help it. I always focus in on the negative.
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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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Do what you love. It’s going to lead to where you want to go.
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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 had to learn to do stuff only for myself, and stop thinking about pleasing some imaginary client or boss. It's a habit that many artists get into that have worked in commercial ventures.
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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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Making art is nothing but risk, always. If it's not risk, it's no good.
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It would be really embarrassing to introduce yourself as somebody who makes beauty.
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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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Artists are people who create beauty. That's the bottom line.
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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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The only tip I have for an artist is perseverance... Never give up.
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I want to communicate. I do every artist does. That's why you're an artist.
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Being an artist is a lifestyle.
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