43 Quotes by 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.

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…

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

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

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.

If we don’t have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective.

As far as I’m concerned, there is only one study and that is the way in which things relate to one another.

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.

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.