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.
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
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
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.
Morandi gave an intimate view of his deepest thoughts. We watched him inquiring after the devilish questions of essences and substances. - Wayne Thiebaud
Morandi gave an intimate view of his deepest thoughts. We watched him inquiring after the devilish questions of essences and substances.
Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen. - Wayne Thiebaud
Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.
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 you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.
Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that. - Wayne Thiebaud
Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.
Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom. - Wayne Thiebaud
Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom.
If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective - Wayne Thiebaud
If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective
I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove. - Wayne Thiebaud
I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.
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