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It's a shock for me to go through and see all those years of painting my life, which is very personal for me. It's a very difficult thing for an artist to look back at his work.
Andrew Wyeth
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Andrew Wyeth
Age: 91 †
Born: 1917
Born: July 12
Died: 2009
Died: January 16
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Andrew Nowell Wyeth
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Believe in yourself and believe in love. Love something.
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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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My pencil is like a fencer's foil.
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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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What you have to do is break all the rules.
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If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.
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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 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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I don't think that there is anything that is really magical unless it has a terrifying quality.
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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 dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.
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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 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 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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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 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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Don't overdo it, don't underdo it. Do it just on the line.
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I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.
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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 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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