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

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

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

- Wayne Thiebaud

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

- 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

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

Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom.

- 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