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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.

Andrew Wyeth

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Andrew Wyeth
Age: 91 †
Born: 1917
Born: July 12
Died: 2009
Died: January 16
Painter
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Chadds Ford
Pennsylvania
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Andrew Newell Wyeth
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Andrew Nowell Wyeth
Andrew N. Wyeth
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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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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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My aim is not to exhibit craft, but rather to submerge it, and make it rightfully the handmaiden of beauty, power and emotional content.
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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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I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.
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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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I don't think that there is anything that is really magical unless it has a terrifying quality.
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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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If it [talent] isn’t strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it’s not worth much.
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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 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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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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Believe in yourself and believe in love. Love something.
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I think a person permeates a spot, and a lost presence makes the environment timeless to me, keeps an area alive. It pulsates because of that.
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