Andrew Wyeth Quotes

Andrew Wyeth was an American painter known for his realistic and detailed depictions of rural life and landscapes. He was a prominent figure in the 20th-century art world and is considered one of the most important American artists of his time. Wyeth's works often evoke a sense of solitude and contemplation, capturing the essence of the American countryside. His paintings have been widely exhibited and admired for their technical skill and emotional depth.

It's all in how you arrange the thing... the caref... -Andrew Wyeth

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

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The quote highlights the significance of thoughtful arrangement or composition in design. It suggests that achieving a harmonious and balanced arrangement is crucial for creating a sense of motion, energy, or dynamism within a design, indicating that the arrangement itself holds the key to capturing movement or flow.

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.

At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.

One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love go... -Andrew Wyeth

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

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 want to come alive with the object.

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.

It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, b... -Andrew Wyeth

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

If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.

I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not pai... -Andrew Wyeth

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

I love to study the many things that grow below the corn stalks and bring them back to the studio to study the color. If one could only catch that true color of nature - the very thought of it drives me mad.

To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no clothes on. It's terrible.

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.

To be interested solely in technique would be a ve... -Andrew Wyeth

To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.

I'm a secretive bastard. I would never let anybody watch me painting... it would be like somebody watching you have sex - painting is that personal to me.

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 don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.

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