At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery. Andrew Wyeth More Quotes by Andrew Wyeth More Quotes From Andrew Wyeth Believe in yourself and believe in love. Love something. Andrew Wyeth believe-in-yourselfpositivitybelieve I'm not at all interested in painting the object just as it is in nature. Certainly I'm much more interested in the mood of a thing than the truth of a thing. Andrew Wyeth objectspaintingmood I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes. Andrew Wyeth loveartthinking Most artists look for something fresh to paint; frankly I find that quite boring. For me it is much more exciting to find fresh meaning in something familiar. Andrew Wyeth boringartistlooks When you lose your simplicity, you lose your drama. Andrew Wyeth losessimplicitydrama I don't think that there is anything that is really magical unless it has a terrifying quality. Andrew Wyeth qualityfearthinking I've never studied the Japanese. That's something that must have crept in there. But the Japanese are my biggest clients. They seem to like the elemental quality. Andrew Wyeth collectorsqualityclients I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show. Andrew Wyeth autumnwinterfall 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 lonelinessdreamfall If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window. Andrew Wyeth flyingjoyfirsts 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. Andrew Wyeth superficial-thingstechniquepowerful There's a quote from Hamlet that is my guide... He tells the players not to exaggerate but to hold a mirror up to nature. Don't overdo it, don't underdo it. Do it just on the line. Andrew Wyeth linesmirrorsplayer I think you have to use your eyes as well as your emotion, and one without the other just doesn't work Andrew Wyeth eyeusethinking My aim is not to exhibit craft, but rather to submerge it, and make it rightfully the handmaiden of beauty, power and emotional content. Andrew Wyeth craftsemotionalpurpose 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. Andrew Wyeth texturerealfeelings What you have to do is break all the rules. Andrew Wyeth freedombreak 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 emotionalartthinking I have a good friend, Rudolf Serkin, the pianist, a very sensitive man. I was talking to him one day backstage after a concert and I told him that I thought he had played particularly sensitively that day. I said, "You know, many pianists are brilliant, they strike the keys so well, but somehow you are different." "Ah," he said, "I don't think you should ever strike a key. You should pull the keys with your fingers." Andrew Wyeth good-friendmenart I think a person permeates a spot, and a lost presence makes the environment timeless to me, keeps an area alive. It pulsates because of that. Andrew Wyeth environmentalivethinking I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious. Andrew Wyeth paintingdreamart
