43 Quotes by Wayne Thiebaud

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

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

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

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

Diebenkorn was a very good critic, a very tough critic, tough on himself, tough on others. He expected the finest.

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.

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.

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.

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.