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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.
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
Wei-ssu
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Andoryū Waiesu
Ėndri︠u︡ Uaĭet
Andrew Nowell Wyeth
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It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.
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My aim is to escape from the medium with which I work.
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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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My pencil is like a fencer's foil.
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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'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 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 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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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 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 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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God, I've frozen my ass off painting snow scenes!
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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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What you have to do is break all the rules.
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