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I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.

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
Subconscious
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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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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.
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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 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.
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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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It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.
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I do an awful lot of thinking and dreaming about things in the past and the future - the timelessness of the rocks and the hills - all the people who have existed there.
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The most irritating experience for an artist is to have his work criticized before it is finished.
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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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I don't think that there is anything that is really magical unless it has a terrifying quality.
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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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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.
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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.
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