Andrew Wyeth

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"One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes."

Andrew Wyeth

"It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment."

Andrew Wyeth

"It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion."

Andrew Wyeth

"I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare."

Andrew Wyeth

"I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth and then I can fly free."

Andrew Wyeth

"I do an awful lot of thinking and dreaming about things in the past and the future - the timelessness of the rocks and the hills - all the people who have existed there. I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show."

Andrew Wyeth

"I think a person permeates a spot, and a lost presence makes the environment timeless to me, keeps an area alive. It pulsates because of that."

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

"If it [talent] isn’t strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it’s not worth much."

Andrew Wyeth