"I think of myself as a beginner. Sometimes……" — Wayne Thiebaud
"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."
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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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More Beginner Quotes
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A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most…
— Teresa of Avila
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You wanna build your IQ higher in the next two years? Be uncomfortable. That means, learn something where you have…
— Nolan Bushnell
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It is clear that there must be difficulties for us in a revelation such as the Bible. If someone were…
— Reuben Archer Torrey
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The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged…
— William Osler
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A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he…
— Robin G. Collingwood
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The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Two simple principles lie at the bottom of the whole matter, and they may be precipitated into two rules. The…
— H. L. Mencken
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Teach as an old fishing guide takes out a beginner.
— Theodore Roethke
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If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.
— Edward Weston
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The king, which during the opening and middlegame stage is often a burden because it has to be defended, becomes…
— Jose Raul Capablanca
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Every Chess master was once a beginner
— Irving Chernev
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Like every beginner, I have thought you could beat, pummel and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of…
— Ray Bradbury
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