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When you lose your simplicity, you lose your drama.
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
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And, of course, I began drawing so much - wild, undisciplined pencil drawings and watercolors of knights battling and such.
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It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.
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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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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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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 don't think that there is anything that is really magical unless it has a terrifying quality.
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God, I've frozen my ass off painting snow scenes!
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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 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 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 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 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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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 pencil is like a fencer's foil.
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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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