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I've never studied the Japane...

I've never studied the Japanese. That's something that must have crept in there. But the Japanese are my biggest clients. They seem to like the elemental quality.

Andrew Wyeth 41 quotes

God, I've frozen my ass off p...

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

Andrew Wyeth 41 quotes

The most irritating experienc...

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

Andrew Wyeth 41 quotes

If somehow I can, before I le...

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 41 quotes

With watercolour, you can pic...

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.

Andrew Wyeth 41 quotes

It's a shock for me to go thr...

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 41 quotes

My aim is to escape from the ...

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.

Andrew Wyeth 41 quotes

I wanted to get it all down, ...

I wanted to get it all down, maybe out of my system. I wanted to be able to say, Everything's possible-if you believe and can get excited.

Andrew Wyeth 41 quotes

I think a person permeates a ...

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.

Andrew Wyeth 41 quotes

I've tried never to be easily...

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 41 quotes

I can't work completely out o...

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 41 quotes

If you clean it up, get analy...

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 41 quotes

I'm a secretive bastard. I wo...

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 41 quotes

One's art goes as far and as ...

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

Andrew Wyeth 41 quotes

I can't work completely out o...

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 41 quotes

I don't really have studios. ...

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 41 quotes

Artists today think of everyt...

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 41 quotes

I love to study the many thin...

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 41 quotes

At 18 I began painting steadi...

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

Andrew Wyeth 41 quotes

I surrendered to a world of m...

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 41 quotes

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