Wayne Thiebaud Quotes About Painting

Quotes about: Painting

• 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

  People, Copying, Painting

• Painting is more important than art.

  Wayne Thiebaud

  Art, Important, Painting

• 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

  Real, Thinking, Squares

• 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

  Color, Ordinary, Landscape

• A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of a multi-dimension than when it is done directly as a visual recording. This results in a kind of abstraction... and thus avoids the pitfalls of mere decoration.

  Wayne Thiebaud

  Giving, Decision, Dimensions

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