Andrew Wyeth Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Believe in yourself and believe in love. Love something.”
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“I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.”
-- Andrew WyethSource : "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.”
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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 WyethSource : "Unhaling: On God, Grace and a Perfectly Imperfect Life". Book by Elise Seyfried (p. 85), May 6, 2010.
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“I don't think that there is anything that is really magical unless it has a terrifying quality.”
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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.”
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“I can't work completely out of my imagination-I must put my foot in a bit of truth-and then I can fly free.”
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“The most irritating experience for an artist is to have his work criticized before it is finished.”
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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.”
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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 WyethSource : Andrew Wyeth, Greenville County Museum of Art (1979). “Works”
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“You think you're developing and getting better and then you see something you did years ago. Looking at your early work.. sometimes it has a depth that surprises you.”
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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.”
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“It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.”
-- Andrew WyethSource : Andrew Wyeth, Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) (1980). “Andrew Wyeth”
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“My aim is to escape from the medium with which I work; to leave no residue of technical mannerisms to stand between my expression and the observer. To seek freedom through significant form and design rather than through the diversion of so-called free and accidental brush handling.”
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“I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.”
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“What you have to do is break all the rules.”
-- Andrew WyethSource : "Still Sovereign of His Own Art World" by Ralph Blumenthal, www.nytimes.com. February 18, 1997.
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“I love to study the many things that grow below the corn stalks and bring them back to the studio to study the color. If one could only catch that true color of nature - the very thought of it drives me mad.”
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“If it [talent] isn’t strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it’s not worth much.”
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“I surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.”
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“With watercolour, you can pick up the atmosphere, the temperature, the sound of snow shifting through the trees or over the ice of a small pond or against a windowpane. Watercolour perfectly expresses the free side of my nature.”
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“It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.”
-- Andrew WyethSource : Andrew Wyeth, Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) (1980). “Andrew Wyeth”
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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.”
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“At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.”
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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 WyethSource : Andrew Wyeth, Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) (1980). “Andrew Wyeth”
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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.”
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“Don't overdo it, don't underdo it. Do it just on the line.”
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“To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.”
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“I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.”
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“I think a person permeates a spot, and a lost presence makes the environment timeless to me, keeps an area alive. It pulsates because of that.”
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“To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no clothes on. It's terrible.”
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