"If you stare at an object, as you……" — Wayne Thiebaud
"If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from 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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