"I don't make a lot of distinctions between……" — Wayne Thiebaud
"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, color, structure, and so on - certainly traditional and ordinary problems."
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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 tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you.…
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The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
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You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you…
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
— Honore de Balzac
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Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
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The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security…
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For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.
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It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.
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To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite,…
— Charles Baudelaire
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I like bold colors but usually wear black.
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