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Painting is more important than art.
Wayne Thiebaud / Painter
Art
Important
Painting
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Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom.
Wayne Thiebaud / Painter
Aids
Discipline
Restriction
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Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.
Wayne Thiebaud / Painter
Art
Achievement
Mean
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If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective
Wayne Thiebaud / Painter
Humor
Famous Artist
Perspective
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Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.
Wayne Thiebaud / Painter
Art
Morning
Olympus
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My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
Wayne Thiebaud / Painter
Paint
Sin
Want
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I'm a believer in the notion that artists who do good work believe in the ideas of extremes.
Wayne Thiebaud / Painter
Artist
Believe
Ideas
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The Gold Rush and the Pony Express made Sacramento a substantial place in terms of enterprise.
Wayne Thiebaud / Painter
Enterprise
Gold
Made
Ponies
Express
Pony
Rush
Substantial
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I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.
Wayne Thiebaud / Painter
Art
Ideas
Painter
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Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.
Wayne Thiebaud / Painter
Common
Ordinary
Way
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As far as I'm concerned, there is only one study and that is the way in which things relate to one another.
Wayne Thiebaud / Painter
Concerned
Study
Way
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If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.
Wayne Thiebaud / Painter
Objects
Paint
Staring
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Diebenkorn was a very good critic, a very tough critic, tough on himself, tough on others. He expected the finest.
Wayne Thiebaud / Painter
Finest
Tough
Very Good
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Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.
Wayne Thiebaud / Painter
Art
Inspirational
Life
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I think of myself as a beginner. Sometimes that's the whole joy. If you could just do it, there'd be no point in doing it.
Wayne Thiebaud / Painter
Inexperience
Joy
Thinking
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Morandi gave an intimate view of his deepest thoughts. We watched him inquiring after the devilish questions of essences and substances.
Wayne Thiebaud / Painter
Essence
Substance
Views
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An artist needs the best studio instruction, the most rigorous demands, and the toughest criticism in order to tune up his sensibilities.
Wayne Thiebaud / Painter
Artist
Criticism
Order
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If I don't have anything better to do that day, I'll copy paintings, generally by people who have some relationship to the work of the moment.
Wayne Thiebaud / Painter
Copying
Painting
People
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We all need critical confrontation of the fullest and most extreme kind that we can get. You can unnecessarily limit yourself by choosing your criticism.
Wayne Thiebaud / Painter
Criticism
Limits
Needs
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A painter is always overjoyed when anybody pays any attention to him at all, puts him in any category, calls him anything - as long as they call him something.
Wayne Thiebaud / Painter
Attention
Long
Pay
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Commonplace objects are constantly changing… The pies, for example, we now see, are not going to be around forever. We are merely used to the idea that things do not change.
Wayne Thiebaud / Painter
Forever
Ideas
Pie
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Art is one of the dirtiest words in our language; it's mucked up with all kinds of meanings. There's the art of plumbing; there's the art of almost anything that you can say.
Wayne Thiebaud / Painter
Art
Kind
Language
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I'm not just interested in the pictorial aspects of the landscape - see a pretty place and try to paint it - but in some way to manage it, manipulate it, or see what I can turn it into.
Wayne Thiebaud / Painter
Landscape
Trying
Way
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Morandi suggests we are all single in this world, hoping for independent repose. But our best opportunity for a community of excellence depends upon a collection of enlightened individuals.
Wayne Thiebaud / Painter
Opportunity
Community
Excellence
Independent
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The most important thing is that the work has to be solid [in terms of its formal structure] and that the work accomplishes what it strives to achieve. It has to be genuine - not mannered or stylistically driven.
Wayne Thiebaud / Painter
Important
Integrity
Strive
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An artist has to train his responses more than other people do. He has to be as disciplined as a mathematician. Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom. It prepares an artist to choose his own limitations.
Wayne Thiebaud / Painter
Artist
Discipline
People
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I don't make a lot of distinctions between things like landscape or figure painting, because to me the problems are inherently the same - lighting, color, structure, and so on - certainly traditional and ordinary problems.
Wayne Thiebaud / Painter
Color
Landscape
Ordinary
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The figures... are not supposed to reveal anything... It's like seeing a stranger in some place like an air terminal for the first time. You look at him, you notice his shoes, his suit, the pin in his lapel, but you don't have any particular feeling about him.
Wayne Thiebaud / Painter
Air
Feelings
Shoes
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When you think of painting as painting it is rather absurd. The real world is before us - glorious sunlight and activity and fresh air, and high speed motor cars and television, all the animation - a world apart from a little square of canvas that you smear paint on.
Wayne Thiebaud / Painter
Real
Squares
Thinking
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A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of a multi-dimension than when it is done directly as a visual recording. This results in a kind of abstraction... and thus avoids the pitfalls of mere decoration.
Wayne Thiebaud / Painter
Decision
Dimensions
Giving
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My subject matter was a genuine sort of experience that came out of my life, particularly the American world in which I was privileged to be . . . . I would really think of the bakery counters, of the way the counter was lit, where the pies were placed, but I wanted just a piece of the experience. From when I worked in restaurants . . . [it was] always poetic to me.
Wayne Thiebaud / Painter
Pie
Thinking
World
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