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My interest in painting is recording things. I think of myself as almost a documentary filmmaker ... I've gotten into some curious situations ... — Jamie Wyeth

The things that I paint are things that I know very well. — Jamie Wyeth

As a child, I always wanted to live on a boat. — Jamie Wyeth

The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology. — Jamie Wyeth

My aunt Caroline was really a character. She lived and worked in my grandfather's old house and even wore some of his clothes. — Jamie Wyeth

I have copies of the books my grandfather illustrated for Scribner's in each house. I read those books all the time. — Jamie Wyeth

I'm an odd portrait painter in that I'm not just interested in human faces. I consider almost all of my paintings to be portraits. — Jamie Wyeth

Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject. — Jamie Wyeth

Painting is such an individual profession. I'm not performing. There's no audience. — Jamie Wyeth

Interesting is when one can produce a picture that is pretty, but with undercurrents. The metaphor that comes to mind is in the poems of Robert Frost. — Jamie Wyeth

The great thing about a painter is that he or she lives on - I mean, Andrew Wyeth is more in his paintings than he was walking around. — Jamie Wyeth

Painting is as difficult as brain surgery. It's not that relaxing. But that's the discipline. — Jamie Wyeth

Animals are not cute. They are disturbing. Pigs do eat their young. Actually, I hate pigs. I just happen to have some who are friends of mine. — Jamie Wyeth

I have continued to paint; my father - who was savaged by the critics - continued to paint until practically the last week of his life. — Jamie Wyeth

I have hundreds of art books and the biographies of artists I love, such as Thomas Eakins and Edgar Degas. — Jamie Wyeth

I'm a terrible technician, and I have a very hard time painting. — Jamie Wyeth

To me, dance is so ethereal and elusive, so much of an illusion. After a performance, that's it. With vocals and music, you have good recordings. — Jamie Wyeth

Nothing is more uninteresting than completely knowing somebody, being totally at ease. — Jamie Wyeth

There's a quality of life in Maine which is this singular and unique. I think. It's absolutely a world onto itself. — Jamie Wyeth

I paint every day. I really have no hobbies. That's all I do. — Jamie Wyeth

I thought to live on an island was like living on a boat. Islands intrigue me. You can see the perimeters of your world. It's a microcosm. — Jamie Wyeth

Warhol had a huge effect on me. It wasn't that I sought it out. It was more of a natural evolution. — Jamie Wyeth

I view anything on this farm as model. I actually painted Union Rags as a yearling. — Jamie Wyeth

I learned from a longtime farmer that pigs enjoy soothing music. — Jamie Wyeth

To me, this was an oxymoron, doing a painting of a dancer. Dancers are always moving. — Jamie Wyeth

I just can't whip off a likeness of somebody. — Jamie Wyeth

I'm not just interested in fascinating faces or trees. I want to bore in deeper. — Jamie Wyeth

Dance looks absurd on film, I think, like little puppets moving around. — Jamie Wyeth

Being a painter is the only profession where you have to stand there with all your shortcomings on the wall. — Jamie Wyeth

I mostly paint animals I'm familiar with, but I did a series of paintings of ravens, so I read everything about them. — Jamie Wyeth

My father's work is rather mysterious, not much said, and my grandfather's is robust, bursting off the walls. — Jamie Wyeth

The real kiss of death - particularly with my father - is the extraordinary popularity of his work. — Jamie Wyeth

Oddly enough, my grandfather probably had more of an influence on me than my father. — Jamie Wyeth