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
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.
thinking years growth
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.
years feelings emotion
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.
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.
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.
aim mediums
My aim is to escape from the medium with which I work.
knights drawing undisciplined
And, of course, I began drawing so much - wild, undisciplined pencil drawings and watercolors of knights battling and such.
lines moderation
Don't overdo it, don't underdo it. Do it just on the line.
mother father home
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.
painting mood objects
I'm not at all interested in painting the object just as it is in nature. Certainly I'm much more interested in the mood of a thing than the truth of a thing.
deception foils pencils
My pencil is like a fencer's foil.