All Andrew Wyeth Quotes
- Well, being the youngest child and frail, I was left alone a great deal of the time. Alone
- There's a quote from Hamlet that is my guide... He tells the players not to exaggerate but to hold a mirror up to nature. Don't… Exaggerate
- God, I've frozen my ass off painting snow scenes! Ass
- My aim is not to exhibit craft, but rather to submerge it, and make it rightfully the handmaiden of beauty, power and emotional content. Aim
- When you lose your simplicity, you lose your drama. Drama
- I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show. Beneath
- I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious. Art
- Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a… Art
- It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion. All
- To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me. Inspirational
- It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment. Creative
- I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me. Anyplace
- 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… Bring
- I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it... I always want to see the third dimension of… Alive
- At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery. Age
- My struggle is to preserve that abstract flash - like something you caught out of the corner of your eye, but in the picture you… Abstract
- 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… Active
- 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… Anybody