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.
When you lose your simplicity, you lose your drama. - Andrew Wyeth
When you lose your simplicity, you lose your drama.
- Andrew Wyeth
My pencil is like a fencer's foil. - Andrew Wyeth
My pencil is like a fencer's foil.
I think you have to use your eyes as well as your emotion, and one without the other just doesn't work - Andrew Wyeth
I think you have to use your eyes as well as your emotion, and one without the other just doesn't work
I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious. - Andrew Wyeth
I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.
My aim is not to exhibit craft, but rather to submerge it, and make it rightfully the handmaiden of beauty, power and emotional content. - Andrew Wyeth
My aim is not to exhibit craft, but rather to submerge it, and make it rightfully the handmaiden of beauty, power and emotional content.
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 … - Andrew Wyeth
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 …
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… - Andrew Wyeth
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…
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… - Andrew Wyeth
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…
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… - Andrew Wyeth
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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