Andrew Wyeth Quotes on Art

Andrew Wyeth was a famous American realist painter. He is best known for his realist works of rural scenes, usually with a figure, object, or animal in it. His unusual compositions tend to add to the understated drama of his work. Famous Andrew Wyeth paintings include “Christina’s World”, “Winter Fields”, “Pennsylvania Landscape”, “Sea Boots”, “Public Sale”, “Braids”, “Henry Teel”, “Evening at Kuerners”, and “Wind from the Sea”.

Mini biography: Born Andrew Newell Wyeth on the 12th of July, 1917 in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, United States of America. His mother was Carolyn Bockius and his father N. C. Wyeth was a notable artist and illustrator. Wyeth married Betsy James in 1940 and they had two children together: Nicholas and James Wyeth. The artist died on the 16th of January, 2009 in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, US at the age of 91. He was buried at the Hathorn Cemetery, Cushing, Maine, United States.

List of Famous Andrew Wyeth Art Quotes

It’s a shock for me to go through and see all those years of painting my life, which is very personal for me. It’s a very difficult thing for an artist to look back at his work. Andrew Wyeth

It’s an enlightening, it’s a flash. And then, after you have that flash, of course, comes the hard work of finally pulling it together and putting it down with as great simplicity as you can. Andrew Wyeth

You think you’re developing and getting better and then you see something you did years ago. Looking at your early work.. sometimes it has a depth that surprises you. 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. Andrew Wyeth

dream a lot. I do more painting when I’m not painting. It’s in the subconscious. Andrew Wyeth

My aim is to escape from the medium with which I work; to leave no residue of technical mannerisms to stand between my expression and the observer. Andrew Wyeth

One’s art goes as far and as deep as one’s love goes. Andrew Wyeth

I paint the things that emotionally mean a lot to me. I just can’t make up something. It’s got to be something I have felt. Andrew Wyeth

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. Andrew Wyeth

I think the great weakness in most of my work is subject matter. There’s too much of it. Andrew Wyeth

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. Andrew Wyeth

When I made these paintings I was lost in trying to capture these moments and emotions that were taking place. Andrew Wyeth

I didn’t think it a picturesque place. It just excited me, purely abstractly and purely emotionally. Andrew Wyeth

Andrew Wyeth Self Portrait Painting

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