"My sin as a painter is that I……" — Wayne Thiebaud

"My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint."

— 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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Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint… — Erykah Badu
All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any… — David Bailey
Perfect isn't normal, nor is it interesting. I have no features without makeup. I am pale. I have blond lashes.… — Amy Adams
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. — Honore de Balzac
Ever since I was a girl, I have written about one to five pages every day - on napkins, on… — Roseanne Barr
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. — Henry Ward Beecher
Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the… — Dan Brown
Know what you're trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing… — Steve Albini
Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint… — William S. Burroughs
I get to experiment with a lot of looks with my character so that's really fun for me. It's like… — Sophia Bush
I'd like to write the way Matisse paints. — A. S. Byatt
But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it… — Lord Byron

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