"My struggle is to preserve that abstract flash……" — Andrew Wyeth
"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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Andrew Wyeth
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43 Quotes by Andrew Wyeth
Andrew Wyeth has 43 quotes on this site.
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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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More Abstract Quotes
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
— Honore de Balzac
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
— Theodor Adorno
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
— Nicolas Cage
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
— Nicolas Cage
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
— Eric Cantona
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
— Sam Abell
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
— Giorgio Armani
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