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To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me. If I have an emotion, before I die, that's deeper than any emotion that I've ever had, then I will paint a more powerful picture that will have nothing to do with just technique, but will go beyond it.

Andrew Wyeth
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My aim is not to exhibit craft, but rather to submerge it, and make it rightfully the handmaiden of beauty, power and emotional content.

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

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I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes. I see no reason for painting but that. If I have anything to offer, it is my emotional …

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When you lose your simplicity, you lose your drama.

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I think you have to use your eyes as well as your emotion, and one without the other just doesn't work

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My pencil is like a fencer's foil.

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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 wan…

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I'm not at all interested in painting the object just as it is in nature. Certainly I'm much more interested in the mood of a thing than the truth of…

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My struggle is to preserve that abstract flash - like something you caught out of the corner of your eye, but in the picture you can look at it direc…

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