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

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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'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

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

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

- 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