Andrew Wyeth Quotes About Painting

Quotes about: Painting

• 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

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

  Andrew Wyeth

  Dream, Art, Painting

• At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.

  Andrew Wyeth

  New York, Age, Firsts

• 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

• It's a shock for me to go through and see all those years of painting my life, which is very personal for me. It's a very difficult thing for an artist to look back at his work.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Artist, Years, Looks

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

  Andrew Wyeth

  Snow, Frozen, Painting

• I've tried never to be easily satisfied, and I've been painting like fury now for forty years.... I have a feeling. You paint about as far as your emotions go, and that's about it.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Years, Feelings, Emotion

• 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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