Andrew Wyeth Quotes

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• Believe in yourself and believe in love. Love something.
• 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 alive. It pulsates because of…
• If it [talent] isn’t strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it’s not worth much.
• 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.
• I surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active…
• 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…
• If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.
• 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.
• Most artists look for something fresh to paint; frankly I find that quite boring. For me it is much more exciting to find fresh meaning…
• I have a good friend, Rudolf Serkin, the pianist, a very sensitive man. I was talking to him one day backstage after a concert and…
• Don't overdo it, don't underdo it. Do it just on the line.
• I'm not at all interested in painting the object just as it is in nature. Certainly I'm much more interested in the mood of a…
• I think you have to use your eyes as well as your emotion, and one without the other just doesn't work
• 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…
• 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…
• I get letters from people about my work. The thing that pleases me most is that my work touches their feelings. In fact, they don't…
• The most irritating experience for an artist is to have his work criticized before it is finished.

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