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Andrew Wyeth quotes: If it [talent] isn't strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it's not worth much.

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

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

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

Andrew Wyeth quotes: God, I've frozen my ass off painting snow scenes!

God, I've frozen my ass off painting snow scenes!

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

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 quotes: And, of course, I began drawing so much - wild, undisciplined pencil drawings and watercolors of knights battling and such.

And, of course, I began drawing so much - wild, undisciplined pencil drawings and watercolors of knights battling and such.

Andrew Wyeth quotes: My pencil is like a fencer's foil.

My pencil is like a fencer's foil.

Andrew Wyeth quotes: What you have to do is break all the rules.

What you have to do is break all the rules.

Andrew Wyeth quotes: It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.

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

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

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

Andrew Wyeth quotes: 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.

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.

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

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

Andrew Wyeth quotes: To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.

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

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

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

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

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

Andrew Wyeth quotes: 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.

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 quotes: I am not a juicy painter.

I am not a juicy painter.

Andrew Wyeth quotes: Well, being the youngest child and frail, I was left alone a great deal of the time.

Well, being the youngest child and frail, I was left alone a great deal of the time.

Andrew Wyeth quotes: Really, I think one's art goes only as far and as deep as your love goes

Really, I think one's art goes only as far and as deep as your love goes

Andrew Wyeth quotes: Don't overdo it, don't underdo it. Do it just on the line.

Don't overdo it, don't underdo it. Do it just on the line.

Andrew Wyeth quotes: If somehow I can, before I leave this earth, combine my absolutely mad freedom and excitement with truth, then I will have done something.

If somehow I can, before I leave this earth, combine my absolutely mad freedom and excitement with truth, then I will have done something.

Andrew Wyeth quotes: One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

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

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

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

Andrew Wyeth quotes: I don't think that there is anything that is really magical unless it has a terrifying quality.

I don't think that there is anything that is really magical unless it has a terrifying quality.

Andrew Wyeth quotes: When you lose your simplicity, you lose your drama.

When you lose your simplicity, you lose your drama.

Andrew Wyeth quotes: The most irritating experience for an artist is to have his work criticized before it is finished.

The most irritating experience for an artist is to have his work criticized before it is finished.

Andrew Wyeth quotes: I wanted to get it all down, maybe out of my system. I wanted to be able to say, Everything's possible-if you believe and can get excited.

I wanted to get it all down, maybe out of my system. I wanted to be able to say, Everything's possible-if you believe and can get excited.

Andrew Wyeth quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Believe in yourself and believe in love. Love something.

Believe in yourself and believe in love. Love something.

Andrew Wyeth quotes: 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 can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth; and then I can fly free.