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Thinking Quotes by Wayne Thiebaud

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Beyond his canvases, Wayne Thiebaud offers a painter’s perspective on thinking that colors everyday cognition. The selection highlights his observations on how visual detail, texture, and composition shape the way we process ideas, giving art lovers a fresh lens on mental habits.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Diebenkorn was a very good critic, a very tough critic, tough on himself, tough on others. He expected the finest.

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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.

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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…

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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…

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Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.

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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…

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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.

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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 -…

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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…

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

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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…

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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…

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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.

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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.

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