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Wayne Thiebaud /weɪn tiboʊ/ WAYN TEE-boh (born November 15, 1920) is an American painter widely known for his colorful works depicting commonplace objects—pies, lipsticks, paint cans, ice cream cones, pastries, and hot dogs—as well as for his landscapes and figure paintings. Thiebaud is associated with the pop art movement because of his interest in objects of mass culture, although his early works, executed during the fifties and sixties, slightly predate the works of the classic pop artists. Thiebaud uses heavy pigment and exaggerated colors to depict his subjects, and the well-defined shadows characteristic of advertisements are almost always included in his work.

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

Become, Common, Ordinary, Seen, Way

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.

Copying, Generally, Painting, People, Work

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

Diebenkorn, Finest, Tough, Very Good

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.

Art, Kind, Language, Say

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

Famous Artist, Humor, Lack, Perspective, Sense

Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom.

Aid, Aids, Discipline, Restriction

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.

Air, Feelings, Look, Particular, Shoes

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

Artist, Criticism, Demands, Order, Sensibilities, Tune

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

Devilish, Essence, Gave, Intimate, Substance, Views

If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.

Learning, Objects, Paint, Staring, Stop

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.

Attention, Call, Long, Overjoyed, Pay

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.

Color, Landscape, Make, Ordinary, Traditional

The most important thing is that the work has to be solid [in terms of its formal structure] and that the work accomplishes what it strives to achieve. It has to be genuine - not mannered or stylistically driven.

Achieve, Driven, Genuine, Important, Integrity, Strive

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.

Landscape, Manage, See, Trying, Turn, Way

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.

Collection, Community, Enlightened, Independent, Opportunity, Repose

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

Paint, Painter, Repaint, Sin, Want

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

Art, Idea, Ideas, Painter, Prove

Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.

Achievement, Art, Mean, Rare

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

Concerned, Relate, Study, Things, Way

Commonplace objects are constantly changing… The pies, for example, we now see, are not going to be around forever. We are merely used to the idea that things do not change.

Forever, Idea, Ideas, Objects, Pie, Used

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