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

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Wayne Thiebaud

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“A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all.”
“Discipline means looking beyond the appearance, beyond that which is visible and acknowledging one Infinite Cause.”
“When people nowadays say that Elvis was the first white guy to sound black, I have to shake my head; what can you do? At the time of 'That's My Desire' 1947 they were saying that I was the only white guy around who sounded black.”
“A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government.”
“I do not think that music keeps evolving. It evolved through Bach; since then, in my humble opinion, all the innovations added nothing.”
“I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.”
“The mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive.”
“I always remind myself that whenever I see a good review or hear a good opinion of a role that I've done that it's just an opinion, and therefore it's technically neither right nor wrong; it can't be. It's not a fact, it's not solid, it's not something you can bet the house on.”

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