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
eye thinking use
I think you have to use your eyes as well as your emotion, and one without the other just doesn't work
joy flying firsts
If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.
real feelings texture
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.
love art thinking
I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.
fear thinking quality
I don't think that there is anything that is really magical unless it has a terrifying quality.
artist looks boring
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.
believe positivity believe-in-yourself
Believe in yourself and believe in love. Love something.
american-artist beneath bone dead feeling landscape loneliness prefer structure waits winter
I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show.
aloud american-artist became history tales wonderful
I surrendered to a 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.
american-artist bit fly foot work
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.
anybody secretive somebody watch watching
I'm a secretive bastard. I would never let anybody watch me painting... it would be like somebody watching you have sex - painting is that personal to me.
american-artist art far goes love
One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.