Jamie Wyeth
Jamie Wyeth
JamesBrowning Wyethis a contemporary American realist painter, son of Andrew Wyeth, and grandson of N.C. Wyeth. He was raised in Chadds Ford Township, Pennsylvania, and is artistic heir to the Brandywine School tradition, painters who worked in the rural Brandywine River area of Delaware and Pennsylvania, portraying its people, animals, and landscape...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth6 July 1946
CountryUnited States of America
Jamie Wyeth quotes about
intrigue islands
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.
field people sudden weathered
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.
absolutely calculated cool god loved warhol
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.
absurd puppets
Dance looks absurd on film, I think, like little puppets moving around.
art aunts died earned family life living prominent uncles year
Art was a way of life in my family. My grandfather, N.C. Wyeth, who died a year before I was born, had been a prominent painter. So was my father, Andrew. My two aunts and two of my uncles also earned a living as painters.
bore faces
I'm not just interested in fascinating faces or trees. I want to bore in deeper.
learned longtime music pigs soothing
I learned from a longtime farmer that pigs enjoy soothing music.
I just can't whip off a likeness of somebody.
danger death hope lose satisfied
I immediately doubt things if I become satisfied with them. Being satisfied by something is a real danger for me. I hope I never lose that. That would be death.
totally
Nothing is more uninteresting than completely knowing somebody, being totally at ease.
painted rags union
I view anything on this farm as model. I actually painted Union Rags as a yearling.
dance good music
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.
painter profession stand
Being a painter is the only profession where you have to stand there with all your shortcomings on the wall.
huge sought warhol
Warhol had a huge effect on me. It wasn't that I sought it out. It was more of a natural evolution.