Andrew Wyeth Quotes

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

Andrew Wyeth

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

Andrew 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

Sometimes there are four or five pictures under the painting.

Andrew Wyeth

The more I'm with an object — whether it's a model or a piece of the country — the more I begin to see what I've been blind to. You start to get what's beneath it. You see deeper within it.

Andrew Wyeth

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

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

Andrew Wyeth

Andrew Wyeth

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Born: July 12, 1917

Died: January 16, 2009 (aged 91)

Bio: Andrew Newell Wyeth was a visual artist, primarily a realist painter, working predominantly in a regionalist style. He was one of the best-known U.S. artists of the middle 20th century.

Known for:

Christina's World (1948)
Wind from the Sea (1947)
Trodden Weed (1951)
Winter 1946 (1946)

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