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I want to communicate. I do every artist does. That's why you're an artist.

Wayne White

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Wayne White
Age: 104
Born: 1920
Born: November 15
Artist
Cartoonist
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Painter
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University Teacher
Mesa
Arizona
Morton Wayne Thiebaud
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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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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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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 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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It would be really embarrassing to introduce yourself as somebody who makes beauty.
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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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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 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 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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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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All I'm really concerned with is doing my thing.
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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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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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You're free because you don't have to expose yourself, and you can go wild, and let your id completely out of its box, and nobody will see you because you're operating through a surrogate. It's an opportunity to crack open your shell, to melt down yourself, and just let yourself go. It's a form of catharsis for me.
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Once the cameras rolling or the audience is in the seats, I'm on. I can't help it. I go into a trance.
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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'm probably the worst person in the world to give advice to puppeteers. My whole attitude towards puppets from the beginning was not one of love, but it was like anti-puppetry.
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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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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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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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