“The figures... are not supposed to reveal anything... It's like seeing a stranger in some place like an air terminal for the first time. You look at him, you notice his shoes, his suit, the pin in his lapel, but you don't have any particular feeling about him.” FirstsLooksFeelingsHumanitySeeingAirFiguresParticularFirst TimeShoesStrangerSuitsPinsTerminal Author:Wayne Thiebaud
“I don't make a lot of distinctions between things like landscape or figure painting, because to me the problems are inherently the same - lighting, color, structure, and so on - certainly traditional and ordinary problems.” ProblemFiguresColorPaintingOrdinaryStructureTraditionalLandscapeDistinctionLightingFigure Painting Author:Wayne Thiebaud