"My aim is not to exhibit craft, but……" — Andrew Wyeth
"My aim is not to exhibit craft, but rather to submerge it, and make it rightfully the handmaiden of beauty, power and emotional content."
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Andrew Wyeth
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43 Quotes by Andrew Wyeth
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Believe in yourself and believe in love. Love something.
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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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What you have to do is break all the rules.
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I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.
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I think a person permeates a spot, and a lost presence makes the environment timeless to me, keeps an area…
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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 can't work completely out of my imagination-I must put my foot in a bit of truth-and then I can…
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I surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me.…
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With watercolour, you can pick up the atmosphere, the temperature, the sound of snow shifting through the trees or over…
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If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes…
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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…
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Most artists look for something fresh to paint; frankly I find that quite boring. For me it is much more…
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause…
— Mahmoud Abbas
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Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of…
— Benigno Aquino III
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If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in…
— David Attenborough
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
— Jane Austen
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The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment…
— Johann Sebastian Bach
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A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are…
— Bryan Adams
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Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social…
— Jacques Barzun
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