Quotes About Wayne Thiebaud

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

Wayne Thiebaud

#2. An artist needs the best studio instruction, the most rigorous demands, and the toughest criticism in order to tune up his sensibilities.

Wayne Thiebaud

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

Wayne Thiebaud

#4. 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

#5. Painting is more important than art.

Wayne Thiebaud

#6. The Oscars are a really strange concept to me, that films and acting can be competing against each other. We're not running the same race. It's like we're all doing different sports in fact.

Heath Ledger

#7. 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

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

Wayne Thiebaud

#9. Dancing was something to be taken very seriously when engaged in and otherwise put out of mind.

Margot Fonteyn

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

Wayne Thiebaud

#11. 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

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

Wayne Thiebaud

#13. Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom.

Wayne Thiebaud

#14. Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.

Mark Twain

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. The Art of Elysium is a program I've volunteered with for close to ten years, and I work with Unicef and Young Storytellers. My passion is really working with children since they are the future.

Danielle Panabaker

#18. 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

#19. As he took her hand she saw him look her over from head to foot, a gesture she recognized and that made her feel at home, but gave her always a faint feeling of superiority to whoever made it. If her person was property she could exercise whatever advantage was inherent in its ownership.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#20. She lived among us for a while
And brought joy where she went.
We thought she was a gift of God
But learned she was but lent.

Joan W. Blos

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. Some people are born starry. Some people shine so bright you can't help but sit back and stare. Some people can't help but shine.

Natalie Lloyd

#24. I'm a believer in the notion that artists who do good work believe in the ideas of extremes.

Wayne Thiebaud

#25. Everybody wants to make a difference, but nobody wants to be different. And you simply cannot have one without the other.

Andy Andrews

#26. Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.

Wayne Thiebaud

#27. This is the same reason I listen to a lot of uber-conservative Republican radio. Because I want to know what is on the minds of my enemies.

Jenny Lawson

#28. Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.

Wayne Thiebaud

#29. I was a terrible employee. I've been fired from almost every job I've ever had, luckily, in a good way, or else I'd be stuck. I would always joke around with everybody, and no one enjoyed my humor.

Anthony Jeselnik

#30. 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

#31. The Gold Rush and the Pony Express made Sacramento a substantial place in terms of enterprise.

Wayne Thiebaud

#32. My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.

Wayne Thiebaud

#33. Being on set is a hard thing. A lot of people are like, 'Oh, you get to make a movie, and it's all fun.' But the reality is, it's a lot of hours. It's a lot of reshoots; it's a lot of waiting. And you can become increasingly agitated by the amount of time that you are waiting. But that's real.

Jill Scott

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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