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From Quotes by Wayne Thiebaud
- Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.
- Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.
- Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.
- 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…
- If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.
- When you think of painting as painting it is rather absurd. The real world is before us - glorious sunlight and activity and fresh air,…
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