Andrew Wyeth Quotes

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.

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

I do an awful lot of thinking and dreaming about things in the past and the future-the timelessness of the rocks and the hills-all the people who have existed there. I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape-the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show.

I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

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 painting. It's in the subconscious.

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

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.

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.