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The Gold Rush and the Pony Express made Sacramento a substantial place in terms of enterprise. -- Wayne Thiebaud
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I'm not just interested in the pictorial aspects of the landscape - see a pretty place and try to paint it - but in some way to manage it, manipulate it, or see what I can turn it into. -- Wayne Thiebaud
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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. -- Wayne Thiebaud
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We all need critical confrontation of the fullest and most extreme kind that we can get. You can unnecessarily limit yourself by choosing your criticism ... -- Wayne Thiebaud
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Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom. -- Wayne Thiebaud
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If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it. -- Wayne Thiebaud
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When you think of painting as painting it is rather absurd. The real world is before us - glorious sunlight and activity and fresh air, and high speed motor cars and television, all the animation - a world apart from a little square of canvas that you smear paint on. -- Wayne Thiebaud
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Morandi gave an intimate view of his deepest thoughts. We watched him inquiring after the devilish questions of essences and substances. -- Wayne Thiebaud
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The figures ... are not supposed to reveal anything ... It's like seeing a stranger in some place like an air terminal for the first time. You look at him, you notice his shoes, his suit, the pin in his lapel, but you don't have any particular feeling about him. -- Wayne Thiebaud
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If I don't have anything better to do that day, I'll copy paintings, generally by people who have some relationship to the work of the moment. -- Wayne Thiebaud
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If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective -- Wayne Thiebaud
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An artist needs the best studio instruction, the most rigorous demands, and the toughest criticism in order to tune up his sensibilities. -- Wayne Thiebaud
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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. -- Wayne Thiebaud
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Painting is more important than art. -- Wayne Thiebaud
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As far as I'm concerned, there is only one study and that is the way in which things relate to one another. -- Wayne Thiebaud
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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 prove. -- Wayne Thiebaud
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Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen. -- Wayne Thiebaud
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An artist has to train his responses more than other people do. He has to be as disciplined as a mathematician. Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom. It prepares an artist to choose his own limitations ... -- Wayne Thiebaud
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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. -- Wayne Thiebaud
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A painter is always overjoyed when anybody pays any attention to him at all, puts him in any category, calls him anything - as long as they call him something. -- Wayne Thiebaud
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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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Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus. -- Wayne Thiebaud
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Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement. -- Wayne Thiebaud
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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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Art is one of the dirtiest words in our language; it's mucked up with all kinds of meanings. There's the art of plumbing; there's the art of almost anything that you can say. -- Wayne Thiebaud
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Morandi suggests we are all single in this world, hoping for independent repose. But our best opportunity for a community of excellence depends upon a collection of enlightened individuals. -- Wayne Thiebaud