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

• Stop
• Learning
• Ifs
• Paint
• Objects
• Staring
• No Point

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• 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
  • Stop
  • Learning
  • Ifs