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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
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Chadds Ford
Pennsylvania
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Andrew Newell Wyeth
Ssu Wei
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Andoryū Waiesu
Ėndri︠u︡ Uaĭet
Andrew Nowell Wyeth
Andrew N. Wyeth
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It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.
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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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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 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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