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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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Ssu Wei
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Andrew Nowell Wyeth
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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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My aim is to escape from the medium with which I work.
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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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If somehow I can, before I leave this earth, combine my absolutely mad freedom and excitement with truth, then I will have done something.
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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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The most irritating experience for an artist is to have his work criticized before it is finished.
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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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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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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 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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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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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 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 think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.
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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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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 am not a juicy painter.
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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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My struggle is to preserve that abstract flash - like something you caught out of the corner of your eye, but in the picture you can look at it directly.
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