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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.
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
Thinking
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Bones
People
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Awful
Dream
Winter
Timelessness
Stories
Structure
Dreaming
Past
Rocks
Existed
Whole
Waiting
Hills
Feels
Future
Landscape
Things
Fall
Loneliness
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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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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.
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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 dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.
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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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My pencil is like a fencer's foil.
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