"I'm a believer in the notion that artists……" — Wayne Thiebaud

"I'm a believer in the notion that artists who do good work believe in the ideas of extremes."

— Wayne Thiebaud

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31 Quotes by Wayne Thiebaud

Wayne Thiebaud has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting…
Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.
Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.
I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to…
Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.
Commonplace objects are constantly changing… The pies, for example, we now see, are not going to be around forever. We…
If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective
An artist has to train his responses more than other people do. He has to be as disciplined as a…
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…
Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom.
An artist needs the best studio instruction, the most rigorous demands, and the toughest criticism in order to tune up…

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Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor… — Chinua Achebe
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an… — Norman Ralph Augustine
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political… — Kevin Bacon
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I… — Erykah Badu
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint… — Erykah Badu

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