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My aim is to escape from the medium with which I work.
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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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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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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And, of course, I began drawing so much - wild, undisciplined pencil drawings and watercolors of knights battling and such.
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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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It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.
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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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What you have to do is break all the rules.
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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 love to study the many things that grow below the corn stalks and bring them back to the studio to study the color. If one could only catch that true color of nature - the very thought of it drives me mad.
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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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To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me. If I have an emotion, before I die, that's deeper than any emotion that I've ever had, then I will paint a more powerful picture that will have nothing to do with just technique, but will go beyond it.
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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 think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.
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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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God, I've frozen my ass off painting snow scenes!
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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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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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It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.
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