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All Quotes by author - Andrew Wyeth
" 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. "
Art
Doing
Think
" At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery. "
Age
New York
New
" 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. "
Truth
Out
Imagination
" I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me. "
People
Fields
Find
" I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious. "
More
Subconscious
Painting
" If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window. "
Window
Emotion
Flying
" 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. "
Nature
Thought
Color
" 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. "
Sex
Personal
Painting
" I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show. "
Landscape
You
Winter
" 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. "
Want
Search
Feeling
" 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. "
Me
Imagination
History
" It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion. "
Design
Thing
Motion
" It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment. "
Inspirational
Fleeting
Frozen
" One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes. "
Deep
Love
Goes
" To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me. "
Me
Superficial
Interested
" 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. "
Work
Wall
Walking
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