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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.
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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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 it [talent] isn’t strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it’s not worth much.
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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 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 think you have to use your eyes as well as your emotion, and one without the other just doesn't work
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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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