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" I began drawing when I was nearly 3, and after finishing the sixth grade, I left school to paint and was tutored at home. My father didn't think a formal education was necessary for a painter. "

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" I had been elected to the National Academy of Design in New York, and one of the requirements was that you give a portrait, a self-portrait of yourself. "

Jamie Wyeth

Design

Yourself

New

" My aunt Caroline was really a character. She lived and worked in my grandfather's old house and even wore some of his clothes. "

" Growing up in Chadds Ford, Pa., I shuttled between studio space in my parents' house and my grandfather's studio just up the hill. It was a solitary childhood, but I loved it. "

" 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. "

" I have continued to paint; my father - who was savaged by the critics - continued to paint until practically the last week of his life. "

" I spent a lot of time alone; I left school to be tutored. So, most of my companions were animals. It's as simple as that. I knew more animals than I did people. "

" We lived in my father's studio, so there were the brushes and the pencils and the paint. So it would - it was very natural for me to want to paint, I think, and it was never a question. "

Jamie Wyeth

Father

Paint

" There's a quality of life in Maine which is this singular and unique. I think. It's absolutely a world onto itself. "

" The great thing about a painter is that he or she lives on - I mean, Andrew Wyeth is more in his paintings than he was walking around. "

Jamie Wyeth

Great

Mean

" My father was a great inspiration, and there was a bit of competition between us. He'd work in his studio, and I'd work in my space, but the door was always half open. "

" The things that I paint are things that I know very well. "

" From my earliest memories, my aunt was squirting out oil paint. I could just eat it. I would go from her studio and walk down to my father's house, and there he was, working in egg tempera. "

" 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. "

" I learned from a longtime farmer that pigs enjoy soothing music. "

" 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. "

" My father, whose work I adore... was down working on little things of grass and dead birds. Well, that didn't interest me. As an 8-year-old kid, I wanted knights in armor and so forth. "

Jamie Wyeth

Father

Little Things

" The real kiss of death - particularly with my father - is the extraordinary popularity of his work. "

" With a creature, there's no voice, so the eyes become the voice. When you get eye-to-eye contact, a real connection, it's limitless - and incredibly thrilling. "

" I'm a very boring person, and all I do is want to paint and to record what I feel moves me or what interests me, and that can be in the form of a pig or in the form of President Kennedy. "

Jamie Wyeth

Boring

Feel

" Nothing is more uninteresting than completely knowing somebody, being totally at ease. "

" I paint every day. I really have no hobbies. That's all I do. "

" Dance looks absurd on film, I think, like little puppets moving around. "

Jamie Wyeth

Looks

Dance

" As a child, I always wanted to live on a boat. "

" I just can't whip off a likeness of somebody. "