Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus. — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove. — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that. — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
An artist has to train his responses more than other people do. He has to be as disciplined as a mathematician. Discipline… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
Art is one of the dirtiest words in our language; it's mucked up with all kinds of meanings. There's the art of… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
I'm a believer in the notion that artists who do good work believe in the ideas of extremes. — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
An artist needs the best studio instruction, the most rigorous demands, and the toughest criticism in order to tune up his sensibilities. — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
My subject matter was a genuine sort of experience that came out of my life, particularly the American world in which I was privileged… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
Diebenkorn was a very good critic, a very tough critic, tough on himself, tough on others. He expected the finest. — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove. — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
We all need critical confrontation of the fullest and most extreme kind that we can get. You can unnecessarily limit yourself by choosing your… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
When you think of painting as painting it is rather absurd. The real world is before us - glorious sunlight and activity and fresh… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
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… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
Morandi gave an intimate view of his deepest thoughts. We watched him inquiring after the devilish questions of essences and substances. — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
I don't make a lot of distinctions between things like landscape or figure painting, because to me the problems are inherently the same -… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
An artist has to train his responses more than other people do. He has to be as disciplined as a mathematician. Discipline is not… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint. — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
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… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
