Wayne Thiebaud Quotes
- 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…
- If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.
- I'm not just interested in the pictorial aspects of the landscape - see a pretty place and try to paint it - but in some…
- Morandi gave an intimate view of his deepest thoughts. We watched him inquiring after the devilish questions of essences and substances.
- Painting is more important than art.
- When you think of painting as painting it is rather absurd. The real world is before us - glorious sunlight and activity and fresh air,…
- A painter is always overjoyed when anybody pays any attention to him at all, puts him in any category, calls him anything - as long…
- 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,…
- 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…
- The Gold Rush and the Pony Express made Sacramento a substantial place in terms of enterprise.
- My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.