Andrew Wyeth Quotes

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• I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Love, Art, Thinking

  "Making Art (and History) Personal" By Bob Duggan, bigthink.com.

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• Most artists look for something fresh to paint; frankly I find that quite boring. For me it is much more exciting to find fresh meaning in something familiar.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Artist, Looks, Boring

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• I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Fall, Autumn, Winter

  Andrew Wyeth, Greenville County Museum of Art (1979). “Works”

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• Believe in yourself and believe in love. Love something.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Believe, Positivity, Believe In Yourself

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• I'm not at all interested in painting the object just as it is in nature. Certainly I'm much more interested in the mood of a thing than the truth of a thing.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Painting, Mood, Objects

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• When you lose your simplicity, you lose your drama.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Drama, Simplicity, Loses

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• I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it... I always want to see the third dimension of something... I want to come alive with the object.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Real, Feelings, Texture

  "Unhaling: On God, Grace and a Perfectly Imperfect Life". Book by Elise Seyfried (p. 85), May 6, 2010.

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• It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Creative, Fleeting, Frozen

  Andrew Wyeth, Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) (1980). “Andrew Wyeth”

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• I think you have to use your eyes as well as your emotion, and one without the other just doesn't work

  Andrew Wyeth

  Eye, Thinking, Use

  Andrew Wyeth, Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) (1980). “Andrew Wyeth”

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• My aim is not to exhibit craft, but rather to submerge it, and make it rightfully the handmaiden of beauty, power and emotional content.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Emotional, Purpose, Crafts

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• If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Joy, Flying, Firsts

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• What you have to do is break all the rules.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Freedom, Break

  "Still Sovereign of His Own Art World" by Ralph Blumenthal, www.nytimes.com. February 18, 1997.

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• I do an awful lot of thinking and dreaming about things in the past and the future - the timelessness of the rocks and the hills - all the people who have existed there.

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  Dream, Loneliness, Fall

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think that there is anything that is really magical unless it has a terrifying quality.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Fear, Thinking, Quality

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• Don't overdo it, don't underdo it. Do it just on the line.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Lines, Moderation

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• I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes. I see no reason for painting but that. If I have anything to offer, it is my emotional contact with the place where I live and the people I do.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Art, Emotional, Thinking

  "Making Art (and History) Personal" By Bob Duggan, bigthink.com.

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• If somehow I can, before I leave this earth, combine my absolutely mad freedom and excitement with truth, then I will have done something.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Mad, Done, Earth

  "Wyeth's Helga, Alone and Floating" by Roberta Smith, www.nytimes.com. June 23, 1989.

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• God, I've frozen my ass off painting snow scenes!

  Andrew Wyeth

  Snow, Frozen, Painting

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• I get letters from people about my work. The thing that pleases me most is that my work touches their feelings. In fact, they don't talk about the paintings. They end up telling me the story of their life or how their father died.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Father, Please Me, People

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• Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Art, Work, Thinking

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• I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Dream, Art, Painting

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• The most irritating experience for an artist is to have his work criticized before it is finished.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Artist, Irritating, Finished

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• To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me. If I have an emotion, before I die, that's deeper than any emotion that I've ever had, then I will paint a more powerful picture that will have nothing to do with just technique, but will go beyond it.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Powerful, Superficial Things, Technique

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• I have a good friend, Rudolf Serkin, the pianist, a very sensitive man. I was talking to him one day backstage after a concert and I told him that I thought he had played particularly sensitively that day. I said, "You know, many pianists are brilliant, they strike the keys so well, but somehow you are different." "Ah," he said, "I don't think you should ever strike a key. You should pull the keys with your fingers."

  Andrew Wyeth

  Art, Good Friend, Men

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• My struggle is to preserve that abstract flash - like something you caught out of the corner of your eye, but in the picture you can look at it directly.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Struggle, Eye, Looks

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