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
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.
love art thinking
I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.
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
fear thinking quality
I don't think that there is anything that is really magical unless it has a terrifying quality.
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.
freedom break
What you have to do is break all the rules.
drama simplicity loses
When you lose your simplicity, you lose your drama.
feet imagination bits
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.
creative fleeting frozen
It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.
father please-me people
I get letters from people about my work. The thing that pleases me most is that my work touches their feelings. In fact, they don't talk about the paintings. They end up telling me the story of their life or how their father died.
new-york age firsts
At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.
mad earth done
If somehow I can, before I leave this earth, combine my absolutely mad freedom and excitement with truth, then I will have done something.
people fields wander
I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.
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.