My father was a great inspiration, and there was a bit of competition between us. He'd work in his studio, and I'd work in my space, but the door was always half open. Jamie Wyeth More Quotes by Jamie Wyeth More Quotes From Jamie Wyeth I paint every day. I really have no hobbies. That's all I do. Jamie Wyeth every-day day hobbies paint The things that I paint are things that I know very well. Jamie Wyeth well things know paint We lived in my father's studio, so there were the brushes and the pencils and the paint. So it would - it was very natural for me to want to paint, I think, and it was never a question. Jamie Wyeth never think me father I'm a very boring person, and all I do is want to paint and to record what I feel moves me or what interests me, and that can be in the form of a pig or in the form of President Kennedy. Jamie Wyeth person feel me boring The quality I most loved in Warhol - it was his sense of wonder. I mean, he was - absolutely everything was, 'Oh my God, isn't that wonderful!'. You know, and so it wasn't that he was cool and kind of calculated at all. He was very childlike. Jamie Wyeth cool you quality god I just can't whip off a likeness of somebody. Jamie Wyeth whip somebody off just With a creature, there's no voice, so the eyes become the voice. When you get eye-to-eye contact, a real connection, it's limitless - and incredibly thrilling. Jamie Wyeth eyes you voice real Nothing is more uninteresting than completely knowing somebody, being totally at ease. Jamie Wyeth more nothing being knowing Animals are not cute. They are disturbing. Pigs do eat their young. Actually, I hate pigs. I just happen to have some who are friends of mine. Jamie Wyeth happen friends hate cute Being a painter is the only profession where you have to stand there with all your shortcomings on the wall. Jamie Wyeth stand your being you To me, this was an oxymoron, doing a painting of a dancer. Dancers are always moving. Jamie Wyeth doing me painting moving Dance looks absurd on film, I think, like little puppets moving around. Jamie Wyeth think dance looks moving To me, dance is so ethereal and elusive, so much of an illusion. After a performance, that's it. With vocals and music, you have good recordings. Jamie Wyeth good me music dance I thought to live on an island was like living on a boat. Islands intrigue me. You can see the perimeters of your world. It's a microcosm. Jamie Wyeth live me you world The problem with having the name Wyeth is that immediately, when people hear the name, they all of a sudden see weathered barns in a field or something. Jamie Wyeth name see problem people
