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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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Pennsylvania
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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 aim is to escape from the medium with which I work.
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It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.
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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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I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.
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When you lose your simplicity, you lose your drama.
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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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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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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'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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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 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 am not a juicy painter.
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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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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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Believe in yourself and believe in love. Love something.
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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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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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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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