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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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Chadds Ford
Pennsylvania
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Andrew Newell Wyeth
Ssu Wei
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Andrew Nowell Wyeth
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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 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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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.
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My pencil is like a fencer's foil.
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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 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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My aim is to escape from the medium with which I work to leave no residue of technical mannerisms to stand between my expression and the observer. To seek freedom through significant form and design rather than through the diversion of so-called free and accidental brush handling.
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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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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'm not at all interested in painting the object just as it is in nature. Certainly I'm much more interested in the mood of a thing than the truth of a thing.
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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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It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.
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I am not a juicy painter.
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To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.
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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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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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Well, being the youngest child and frail, I was left alone a great deal of the time.
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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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You think you're developing and getting better and then you see something you did years ago. Looking at your early work.. sometimes it has a depth that surprises you.
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