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It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.
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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Moments
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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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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.
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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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Well, being the youngest child and frail, I was left alone a great deal of the time.
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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 very difficult thing for an artist to look back at his work.
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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'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 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.
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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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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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I am not a juicy painter.
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My aim is to escape from the medium with which I work.
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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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At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.
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To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me. If I have an emotion, before I die, that's deeper than any emotion that I've ever had, then I will paint a more powerful picture that will have nothing to do with just technique, but will go beyond it.
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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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Don't overdo it, don't underdo it. Do it just on the line.
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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.
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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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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.
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