Andrew Wyeth
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Biography
Andrew Newell Wyeth was an American visual artist and one of the best-known American artists of the middle 20th century. Though he considered himself to be an "abstractionist," Wyeth was primarily a realist painter who worked in a regionalist style, often painting the land and people of his hometown in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and his summer home in Cushing, Maine.
"One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes."
"It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment."
"It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"If it [talent] isn’t strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it’s not worth much."