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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

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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
Talent
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Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.
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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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The most irritating experience for an artist is to have his work criticized before it is finished.
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To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.
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Believe in yourself and believe in love. Love something.
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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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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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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 something... I want to come alive with the object.
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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.
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My pencil is like a fencer's foil.
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God, I've frozen my ass off painting snow scenes!
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It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.
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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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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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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'm not at all interested in painting the object just as it is in nature. Certainly I'm much more interested in the mood of a thing than the truth of a thing.
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Most artists look for something fresh to paint frankly I find that quite boring. For me it is much more exciting to find fresh meaning in something familiar.
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I am not a juicy painter.
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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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