Andrew Wyeth Quotes - Page 2

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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 fly free.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Feet, Imagination, Bits

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• 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 overdo it, don't underdo it. Do it just on the line.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Player, Mirrors, Lines

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• 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 one could only catch that true color of nature - the very thought of it drives me mad.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Love, Color, Mad

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• It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Design, Balance, Careful

  Andrew Wyeth, Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) (1980). “Andrew Wyeth”

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• 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 pond or against a windowpane. Watercolour perfectly expresses the free side of my nature.

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  Ice, Snow, Tree

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• 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 that.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Thinking, Alive, Environment

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• My aim is to escape from the medium with which I work.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Aim, Mediums

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• 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 I told him that I thought he had played particularly sensitively that day. I said, "You know, many pianists are brilliant, they strike the keys so well, but somehow you are different." "Ah," he said, "I don't think you should ever strike a key. You should pull the keys with your fingers."

  Andrew Wyeth

  Art, Good Friend, Men

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• 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 elemental quality.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Quality, Clients, Collectors

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• I don't really have studios. I wander around - around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.

  Andrew Wyeth

  People, Fields, Wander

  Time Magazine, August 18, 1986.

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• At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.

  Andrew Wyeth

  New York, Age, Firsts

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• I wanted to get it all down, maybe out of my system. I wanted to be able to say, Everything's possible-if you believe and can get excited.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Believe, Able, Excited

  Andrew Wyeth (1995). “Andrew Wyeth: Autobiography”

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• If it [talent] isn’t strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it’s not worth much.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Strong, Real, Training

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• I've tried never to be easily satisfied, and I've been painting like fury now for forty years.... I have a feeling. You paint about as far as your emotions go, and that's about it.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Years, Feelings, Emotion

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• My pencil is like a fencer's foil.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Deception, Pencils, Foils

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• My aim is to escape from the medium with which I work; to leave no residue of technical mannerisms to stand between my expression and the observer. To seek freedom through significant form and design rather than through the diversion of so-called free and accidental brush handling.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Expression, Design, Significant

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• You think you're developing and getting better and then you see something you did years ago. Looking at your early work.. sometimes it has a depth that surprises you.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Thinking, Years, Growth

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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 on. It's terrible.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Life, Wall, Walking Away

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• I am not a juicy painter.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Juicy, Painter

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• 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 reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

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  Father, Imagination, World

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• Well, being the youngest child and frail, I was left alone a great deal of the time.

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  Children, Loneliness, Frail

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• To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.

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  Superficial Things, Technique, Would Be

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• I had whooping cough when I was very young, which left me with bronchial problems, and I would always pick up colds. I was very thin and nervous so my father and mother took me out of school and had me tutored at home.

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  Mother, Father, Home

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• And, of course, I began drawing so much - wild, undisciplined pencil drawings and watercolors of knights battling and such.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Knights, Drawing, Undisciplined

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