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I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes. I see no reason for painting but that. If I have anything to offer, it is my emotional contact with the place where I live and the people I do.

Andrew Wyeth

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Andrew Wyeth
Age: 91 †
Born: 1917
Born: July 12
Died: 2009
Died: January 16
Painter
Visual Artist
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Pennsylvania
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Andrew Nowell Wyeth
Andrew N. Wyeth
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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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My struggle is to preserve that abstract flash - like something you caught out of the corner of your eye, but in the picture you can look at it directly.
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My pencil is like a fencer's foil.
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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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My aim is not to exhibit craft, but rather to submerge it, and make it rightfully the handmaiden of beauty, power and emotional content.
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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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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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If it [talent] isn’t strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it’s not worth much.
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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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My aim is to escape from the medium with which I work.
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Believe in yourself and believe in love. Love something.
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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 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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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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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 all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.
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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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