All Wayne Thiebaud Quotes
- 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… Abstraction
- Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that. Concept
- Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement. Achievement
- I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove. Art
- Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus. Art
- 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… Around Forever
- If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective Humor
- 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… Aid
- Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen. Become Strangely
- 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… American
- Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom. Aid
- An artist needs the best studio instruction, the most rigorous demands, and the toughest criticism in order to tune up his sensibilities. Artist
- 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… All
- 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… Anything Better
- 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... All
- Diebenkorn was a very good critic, a very tough critic, tough on himself, tough on others. He expected the finest. Critic
- As far as I'm concerned, there is only one study and that is the way in which things relate to one another. Concerned
- 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… Air
- I'm a believer in the notion that artists who do good work believe in the ideas of extremes. Artist
- 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. Beginner