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
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.
american-artist art far goes love
One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.
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.
artist irritating finished
The most irritating experience for an artist is to have his work criticized before it is finished.
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.
dream art painting
I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.
art emotional thinking
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.
art good-friend men
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."
love art thinking
I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.
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.
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.
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.
player mirrors lines
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.