"If it [talent] isn’t strong enough to take……" — Andrew Wyeth
"If it [talent] isn’t strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it’s not worth much."
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43 Quotes by Andrew Wyeth
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- I don't think that there is anything that is really magical unless it has a terrifying quality.
- What you have to do is break all the rules.
- I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.
- I think a person permeates a spot, and a lost presence makes the environment timeless to me, keeps an area…
- I can't work completely out of my imagination-I must put my foot in a bit of truth-and then I can…
- I surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me.…
- With watercolour, you can pick up the atmosphere, the temperature, the sound of snow shifting through the trees or over…
- If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes…
- To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no clothes…
- Most artists look for something fresh to paint; frankly I find that quite boring. For me it is much more…
- I have a good friend, Rudolf Serkin, the pianist, a very sensitive man. I was talking to him one day…
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