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Andrew Wyeth [1917-2009] American
Rank: 101
Artist (with paintings), Visual artist
Realism


Andrew Newell Wyeth was 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.

Imagination, Art, Design, Inspirational



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One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes. Art
101
It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion. Design
102
I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.
103
I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it... I always want to see the third dimension of something... I want to come alive with the object.
104
It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment. Inspirational
105
I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.
106
To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.
107
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.
108
I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.
109
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. Imagination
110
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. Imagination
111
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.
112
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.
113
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.
114
If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.
115
At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.
116

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