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I hate people who act too cool for school. Just own up to it, dude.

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Wayne White
Age: 103
Born: 1920
Born: November 15
Artist
Cartoonist
Illustrator
Muralist
Painter
Printmaker
Sculptor
University Teacher
Mesa
Arizona
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It would be really embarrassing to introduce yourself as somebody who makes beauty.
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First of all I think of puppets as sculpture. They are sculpture that moves. You could label it any way you want, but for me it always starts in my mind as a sculpture.
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Sheer obstinacy is very very important for anybody who wants to create.
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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 am very suspicious of cameras and dramatic interpretations and the whole Hollywood myth-making process. I don't trust it. I've seen it affect people in bad ways.
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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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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 can't help it. I always focus in on the negative.
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All I do is work, that's all my life is work.
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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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The only tip I have for an artist is perseverance... Never give up.
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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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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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Static puppets, I wanted them to move, they're looking out the windows, but we didn't have time to rig those. I have more ideas than I can execute also every time that I do anything. I put the puppets in because people love 'em. I'm a populist in that sense.
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I'm just a mule with blinders on, I can't help myself.
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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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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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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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Making art is nothing but risk, always. If it's not risk, it's no good.
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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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