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It's the hardest work in the world to try not to work. - N.C. Wyeth — Mason Currey

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Painting and illustration cannot be mixed - one cannot merge from one into the other. — N. C. 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

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

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

I hope the time will never come when I shall feel satisfied. To reach the goal of one's ambitions must be tragic. — N. C. 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 learned from a longtime farmer that pigs enjoy soothing music. — Jamie Wyeth

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

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

When you lose your simplicity, you lose your drama. — Andrew Wyeth

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

If you paint a man leaning over your own back must ache — N. C. 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

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

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

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

Believe in yourself and believe in love. Love something. — 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

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

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

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