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. Andrew Wyeth More Quotes by Andrew Wyeth More Quotes From Andrew Wyeth It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment. Andrew Wyeth frozen fleeting creative Don't overdo it, don't underdo it. Do it just on the line. Andrew Wyeth moderation lines 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. Andrew Wyeth mad color love Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen. Andrew Wyeth work art thinking 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 mad done earth At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery. Andrew Wyeth new-york age firsts I don't really have studios. I wander around - around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me. Andrew Wyeth wander fields people 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. Andrew Wyeth bits imagination feet 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. Andrew Wyeth emotion feelings years 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. Andrew Wyeth excited able believe It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion. Andrew Wyeth careful balance design With watercolour, you can pick up the atmosphere, the temperature, the sound of snow shifting through the trees or over the ice of a small pond or against a windowpane. Watercolour perfectly expresses the free side of my nature. Andrew Wyeth ice tree snow 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. Andrew Wyeth significant design expression 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. Andrew Wyeth growth years thinking The most irritating experience for an artist is to have his work criticized before it is finished. Andrew Wyeth finished irritating artist 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. Andrew Wyeth artist looks years If it [talent] isn’t strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it’s not worth much. Andrew Wyeth training strong real To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me. Andrew Wyeth superficial-things technique would-be 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. Andrew Wyeth eye struggle looks 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. Andrew Wyeth mother home father
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