Thiebaud Wayne Quotes

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

Wayne Thiebaud

#2. 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

#3. The middle-aged woman she would have become, so sure of herself and her place in the world, bossy and loving, condescending and impatient with her dear old mum,

Liane Moriarty

#4. Painting is more important than art.

Wayne Thiebaud

#5. Investors are always biased to invest in things they themselves understand. So venture capitalists like Uber because they like driving in black town cars. They don't like Airbnb because they like staying in five-star hotels, not sleeping on people's couches.

Peter Thiel

#6. 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

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

Wayne Thiebaud

#8. People who try to define their spirituality sometimes are annoying, 'cause the spirit is something you feel and let guide you and humbly respect.

Ben Harper

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

Wayne Thiebaud

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

Wayne Thiebaud

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

Wayne Thiebaud

#12. Oh. My. God.' she said, pointing out of the window. 'Do you know what that is?'

I nodded and said, 'I think I may have seen it before.'

'That,' said Florida, 'is the Moonyouidiot.

Frank Cottrell Boyce

#13. Neither do the ignorant love wisdom or desire to become wise; for this is the grievous thing about ignorance, that those who are neither good nor beautiful think they are good enough, and do not desire that which they do not think they are lacking.

Plato

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

Wayne Thiebaud

#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. There are but few naval powers, but there are many land powers.

Frank B. Kellogg

#18. When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.

Oliver North

#19. 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

#20. Life is not about success; life is about joy, peace, and happiness.

Debasish Mridha

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

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

Wayne Thiebaud

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

Wayne Thiebaud

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

Wayne Thiebaud

#26. Virtually everything we were told in Indonesia turned out not to be true, sometimes almost immediately. The only exception to this was when we were told that something would happen immediately, in which case it turned out not to be true over an extended period of time.

Douglas Adams

#27. I don't think I'm destined for love.

Michaela MacColl

#28. People ask if my parents are hippies, but they're actually very conservative. A girl called Rebel sang at their wedding, and that's where my name came from.

Rebel Wilson

#29. 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

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

Wayne Thiebaud

#31. 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

#32. Pour out your heart to Jesus. He promises to answer (Psalm 86:7). He promises to never leave you or forsake you (Hebrews 13:5).

CCEF

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. When it comes to meeting and attracting women, many men are resigned and complacent. We figure some guys were born with that particular power and other guys weren't. I wasn't.

Neil Strauss

#38. 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

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

Wayne Thiebaud

#40. Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
Nor was it wise to tempt angels, even of the fallen sort.

Cassandra Clare