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All I do is work, that's all my life is work.

Wayne White

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Wayne White
Age: 104
Born: 1920
Born: November 15
Artist
Cartoonist
Illustrator
Muralist
Painter
Printmaker
Sculptor
University Teacher
Mesa
Arizona
Morton Wayne Thiebaud
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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 want to communicate. I do every artist does. That's why you're an artist.
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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 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 a perfectionist I guess. Everyone has to love me.
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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 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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Making art is nothing but risk, always. If it's not risk, it's no good.
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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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Some of these bulls are gonna' spin those cowboys so fast, they'll look like a frog in a blender.
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I'm just a mule with blinders on, I can't help myself.
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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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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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Artists are people who create beauty. That's the bottom line.
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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've been very lucky. I've had three separate careers: freelance illustrator, then set designer, puppetteer and animator, and now fine artist. I just bluffed my way into every one of 'em!
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Do what you love. It’s going to lead to where you want to go.
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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'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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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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