"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 Quotes #Decision Quotes #Details Quotes

“There can never be surprises in logic.”
“By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember.”
“A band is like a family. There's love and hate.”
“We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.”
“I'd like to give the audience what they've always wanted to see and also I want to give the audience what they've never seen. It's these two things I'm striving for.”

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“I am not denying anything I did not say.”
“I think we're in an age starved for genuine experiences, instead of cathartic phony experiences through the media, structured, engineered experiences. And those are the fast food, the masturbation of experience. They don't really exhaust any aspect of ourselves; they don't make us any stronger.”
“Artists are not cheerleaders, and we're not the heads of tourism boards. We expose and discuss what is problematic, what is contradictory, what is hurtful and what is silenced in the culture we're in.”

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