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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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Wayne White
Age: 104
Born: 1920
Born: November 15
Artist
Cartoonist
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Mesa
Arizona
Morton Wayne Thiebaud
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It would be really embarrassing to introduce yourself as somebody who makes beauty.
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I want to communicate. I do every artist does. That's why you're an artist.
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Sheer obstinacy is very very important for anybody who wants to create.
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I'm just a mule with blinders on, I can't help myself.
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I'm a sign painter with no boss.
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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 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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