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I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it the whole story doesn't show.

Andrew Wyeth

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Andrew Wyeth
Age: 91 †
Born: 1917
Born: July 12
Died: 2009
Died: January 16
Painter
Visual Artist
Writer
Chadds Ford
Pennsylvania
Andrew Wyerh
Andrew Newell Wyeth
Ssu Wei
Wei-ssu
Weisi
Andoryū Waiesu
Ėndri︠u︡ Uaĭet
Andrew Nowell Wyeth
Andrew N. Wyeth
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Winter
Timelessness
Whole
Structure
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Feel
Waiting
Bone
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Story
Autumn
Something
Show
Beneath
Fall
Prefer
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Landscape
Shows
Bones
Wintertime

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I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes. I see no reason for painting but that. If I have anything to offer, it is my emotional contact with the place where I live and the people I do.
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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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If somehow I can, before I leave this earth, combine my absolutely mad freedom and excitement with truth, then I will have done something.
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Believe in yourself and believe in love. Love something.
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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.
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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 talk about the paintings. They end up telling me the story of their life or how their father died.
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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.
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