Andrew Wyeth Quotes

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

About Art Artists Doing Everything Forget Happen Important May Then Think Today Work You

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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.

~ Andrew Wyeth

Age Began First Gallery Had Macbeth New New York Painting Show Steadily York

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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.

~ Andrew Wyeth

Bit Fly Foot Free I Can Imagination Must Out Put Then Truth Work

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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.

~ Andrew Wyeth

Around Fields Find Invites Me Out People Really Studios Wander

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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 I Dream Lot More Painting Subconscious

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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.

~ Andrew Wyeth

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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

Beneath Bone Fall Feel Landscape Prefer Show Something Story Structure Waits Whole Winter You

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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

Alive Always Around Come Dimension Feeling Object Real Real Feeling Realness Search See Something Subject Texture Third Want

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I surrendered to a 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.

~ Andrew Wyeth

Active Aloud Became Father History Imagination Me Read Reader Shakespeare Tales Those Very Wonderful World Would

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I'm a secretive bastard. I would never let anybody watch me painting... it would be like somebody watching you have sex - painting is that personal to me.

~ Andrew Wyeth

Anybody Like Me Never Painting Personal Secretive Sex Somebody Watch Watching Would Would-Be You

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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

Analytical Clean Emotion Felt First First Place Flying Get Goes Joy Out Place Subtle Up Window You

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

~ Andrew Wyeth

After Fleeting Frozen Moment

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It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.

~ Andrew Wyeth

Arrange Balance Careful Design How Motion Thing You

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One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

~ Andrew Wyeth

Art Deep Far Goes Love

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To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.

~ Andrew Wyeth

Interested Me Solely Superficial Technique Thing Very Would Would-Be

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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.

~ Andrew Wyeth

Along Clothes Life Like Terrible Them Walking Wall Work Your

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Andrew Wyeth

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Artist

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12 July, 1917

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16 January, 2009

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