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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.
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
Earth
Combine
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Something
Mad
Somehow
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Leave
Freedom
Truth
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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 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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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 it [talent] isn’t strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it’s not worth much.
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God, I've frozen my ass off painting snow scenes!
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My aim is to escape from the medium with which I work.
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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 had whooping cough when I was very young, which left me with bronchial problems, and I would always pick up colds. I was very thin and nervous so my father and mother took me out of school and had me tutored at home.
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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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I don't really have studios. I wander around - around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.
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