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My pencil is like a fencer's foil.
Andrew Wyeth
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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
Foil
Foils
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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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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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My aim is to escape from the medium with which I work.
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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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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 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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To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.
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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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God, I've frozen my ass off painting snow scenes!
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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 dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.
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I've tried never to be easily satisfied, and I've been painting like fury now for forty years.... I have a feeling. You paint about as far as your emotions go, and that's about it.
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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 am not a juicy painter.
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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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What you have to do is break all the rules.
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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'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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The most irritating experience for an artist is to have his work criticized before it is finished.
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