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
emotional purpose crafts
My aim is not to exhibit craft, but rather to submerge it, and make it rightfully the handmaiden of beauty, power and emotional content.
juicy painter
I am not a juicy painter.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
design balance careful
It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.
strong real training
If it [talent] isn’t strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it’s not worth much.
superficial-things technique would-be
To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.
lines moderation
Don't overdo it, don't underdo it. Do it just on the line.
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.
knights drawing undisciplined
And, of course, I began drawing so much - wild, undisciplined pencil drawings and watercolors of knights battling and such.
deception foils pencils
My pencil is like a fencer's foil.