"Diebenkorn was a very good critic, a very……" — Wayne Thiebaud
"Diebenkorn was a very good critic, a very tough critic, tough on himself, tough on others. He expected the finest."
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31 Quotes by Wayne Thiebaud
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A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting…
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Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.
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Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.
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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…
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Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.
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Commonplace objects are constantly changing… The pies, for example, we now see, are not going to be around forever. We…
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If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective
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An artist has to train his responses more than other people do. He has to be as disciplined as a…
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Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.
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My subject matter was a genuine sort of experience that came out of my life, particularly the American world in…
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Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom.
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An artist needs the best studio instruction, the most rigorous demands, and the toughest criticism in order to tune up…
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I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what…
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A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and…
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The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism…
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Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
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I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its…
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A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically…
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Be a doer and not a critic.
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I'm my worst critic, and I like the fact that I can listen to myself now and make fun of…
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Now everyone is a critic.
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I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what…
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A career public speaker is not what I'm called to be. I'm called to be a critic.
— Tony Campolo
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Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of…
— Raymond Chandler
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