Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of a multi-dimension than when it is done directly as a visual recording. This results in a kind of abstraction... and thus avoids the pitfalls of mere decoration.

Wayne Thiebaud's Popular Quotes

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 a…

- Wayne Thiebaud

Morandi gave an intimate view of his deepest thoughts. We watched him inquiring after the devilish questions of essences and substances.

- 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.

- Wayne Thiebaud

Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.

- Wayne Thiebaud

Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.

- Wayne Thiebaud

Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom.

- 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.

- Wayne Thiebaud

If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective

- Wayne Thiebaud

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

- Wayne Thiebaud