Wayne Thiebaud Quotes
If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.
Wayne Thiebaud
Quotes to Explore
-
Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.
Kate Christensen
-
American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
Ian MacKaye
-
There are lots of come-from-behind wins, games getting tied in the last period, teams going on to win. That, I think, tells the best story. Whether or not some teams have more grit, better chemistry, or more luck or more skill, it's still within the parameters. I think that makes for great storytelling and great interest for our fans.
Gary Bettman
-
As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.
Ian Anderson
-
In entertainment, there's a theory that you should be lunching and dinnering and going to some kind of power breakfast.
Gary Goetzman
-
My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.
Zachary Levi
-
One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
-
When Howard Marks came out of prison, years later, I met him at a concert in South Wales; I was a young whippersnapper and Howard was kind of an outlaw hero. I said to him - and it's on tape, a cousin of his filmed our meeting - I said, "If you write a book, I want to play you in a movie." He said, "Let's shake on it," and we did. Thirteen years later, there we were, making the movie.
Rhys Ifans
-
Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.
James Hillman
-
Fame is also won at the expense of others. Even the well-deserved honors of the scientist or man of learning are unfair to many persons of equal achievements who get none. When one man gets a place in the sun, the others are put in a denser shade. From the point of view of the whole group there's no gain whatsoever, and perhaps a loss.
B. F. Skinner
-
If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.
Wayne Thiebaud
