When I paint a portrait I want to know more than just the looks of the person. I want to know how they live and what their feelings are... It then be…

- Jamie Wyeth

Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject.

- Jamie Wyeth

My interest in painting is recording things. I think of myself as almost a documentary filmmaker... I've gotten into some curious situations.

- Jamie Wyeth

The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology.

- Jamie Wyeth

Painting to me is addictive. These are moments when it is inspiring, but they are few and far between. I keep my tools sharpened for the moment when …

- Jamie Wyeth

Painting is as difficult as brain surgery. It's not that relaxing. But that's the discipline.

- Jamie Wyeth

I'm an odd portrait painter in that I'm not just interested in human faces. I consider almost all of my paintings to be portraits.

- Jamie Wyeth

Painting to me is constant searching. I can see what I want, but I can't get there, and yet you have to be open enough that if it goes another way, t…

- Jamie Wyeth

Interesting is when one can produce a picture that is pretty, but with undercurrents. The metaphor that comes to mind is in the poems of Robert Frost.

- Jamie Wyeth