--- Wayne Thibaud, quoted by Adam Gopnik in “An American Painter,” in Wayne Thiebaud: A Paintings Retrospective, Steven A. Nash, Thames & Hudson, 2000, p. 40
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“Painting is more important than art,” he has been known to announce with only a hint of deadpan humour. “Art—art we don't know what the hell it is—though we think we do, or try to do. Whenever one of my students says he's off to do his art, I say not so fast.”
