Andrew Wyeth
Andrew Wyeth
Andrew Newell Wyethwas a visual artist, primarily a realist painter, working predominantly in a regionalist style. He was one of the best-known U.S. artists of the middle 20th century...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth12 July 1917
CityChadds Ford, PA
CountryUnited States of America
ice snow tree
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.
design balance careful
It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.
quality clients elementals
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.
artist years looks
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.
love color mad
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.
father imagination world
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.
wall clothes terrible
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.
children loneliness frail
Well, being the youngest child and frail, I was left alone a great deal of the time.
juicy painter
I am not a juicy painter.
snow frozen painting
God, I've frozen my ass off painting snow scenes!
believe able excited
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.
artist irritating finished
The most irritating experience for an artist is to have his work criticized before it is finished.
expression design significant
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.
art work thinking
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.