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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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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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Well, being the youngest child and frail, I was left alone a great deal of the time.
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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 think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.
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I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.
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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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Don't overdo it, don't underdo it. Do it just on the line.
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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.
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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 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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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 don't think that there is anything that is really magical unless it has a terrifying quality.
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