Artist Quotes by Wayne Thiebaud

Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.

— Wayne Thiebaud

Painting is more important than art.

— Wayne Thiebaud

My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.

— Wayne Thiebaud

I'm a believer in the notion that artists who do good work believe in the ideas of extremes.

— Wayne Thiebaud

Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.

— Wayne Thiebaud

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

— Wayne Thiebaud

Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.

— Wayne Thiebaud

An artist needs the best studio instruction, the most rigorous demands, and the toughest criticism in order to tune up his sensibilities.

— Wayne Thiebaud

If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things…

— Wayne Thiebaud

If I don't have anything better to do that day, I'll copy paintings, generally by people who have some relationship to the…

— Wayne Thiebaud

A painter is always overjoyed when anybody pays any attention to him at all, puts him in any category, calls him anything…

— Wayne Thiebaud

An artist has to train his responses more than other people do. He has to be as disciplined as a mathematician. Discipline…

— Wayne Thiebaud

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

The most important thing is that the work has to be solid [in terms of its formal structure] and that the work…

— Wayne Thiebaud

When you think of painting as painting it is rather absurd. The real world is before us - glorious sunlight and activity…

— Wayne Thiebaud

A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of…

— Wayne Thiebaud