N.c. Wyeth Quotes

#1. Art was a way of life in my family. My grandfather, N.C. Wyeth, who died a year before I was born, had been a prominent painter. So was my father, Andrew. My two aunts and two of my uncles also earned a living as painters.

Jamie Wyeth

#2. My father's like - it's as if he was transparent. He's a man of great mystery, whereas apparently N.C. Wyeth was 6-feet, 2-inches tall, with a booming voice. I think that's reflected in their work.

Jamie Wyeth

#3. It's the hardest work in the world to try not to work. - N.C. Wyeth

Mason Currey

#4. 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

#5. The whole consideration of - ... am I being compared as such and such's grandson and son - that was minuscule compared to the problems I was having just working ... I didn't have time to start worrying about who I was in the eyes of the public.

Jamie Wyeth

#6. Really, if you get to know pigs, they're very moody. They're not sweet little animals at all. That's what I like about them. They get depressed; they get into these snits. They're carnivorous.

Jamie Wyeth

#7. You think you're developing and getting better and then you see something you did years ago. Looking at your early work.. sometimes it has a depth that surprises you.

Andrew Wyeth

#8. As a child, I always wanted to live on a boat.

Jamie Wyeth

#9. What you have to do is break all the rules.

Andrew Wyeth

#10. I love to study the many things that grow below the corn stalks and bring them back to the studio to study the color. If one could only catch that true color of nature - the very thought of it drives me mad.

Andrew Wyeth

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

Andrew Wyeth

#12. I'm not just interested in fascinating faces or trees. I want to bore in deeper.

Jamie Wyeth

#13. I have hundreds of art books and the biographies of artists I love, such as Thomas Eakins and Edgar Degas.

Jamie Wyeth

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. I prefer winter and fall, when you can feel the bone structure in the landscape
the lonliness of it
the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it
the whole story dosen't show.

Andrew Wyeth

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

Andrew Wyeth

#19. Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject.

Jamie Wyeth

#20. 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

#21. My sketchbooks are usually just a line on one page or a circle, which to most people must be totally meaningless. But to me, they are very important to the thing I am working on.

Jamie Wyeth

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

Andrew Wyeth

#23. Painting and illustration cannot be mixed - one cannot merge from one into the other.

N. C. Wyeth

#24. Treasure Island is completed! The entire set of seventeen canvases without one break in my enthusiasm and spirit. Better in every quality than anything I ever did.

N. C. Wyeth

#25. Most artists look for something fresh to paint; frankly I find that quite boring. For me it is much more exciting to find fresh meaning in something familiar.

Andrew Wyeth

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

Jamie Wyeth

#27. 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

#28. If you paint a man leaning over your own back must ache

N. C. Wyeth

#29. Nothing is more uninteresting than completely knowing somebody, being totally at ease.

Jamie Wyeth

#30. 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

#31. My father brought me a box of books once when I was about three and a half or four. I remember the carton they were in and the covers with illustrations by Newell C. Wyeth.

Paula Fox

#32. After being an Impressionist, Cubist, and an Abstract Expressionist, I was influenced by realistic artists, including Andrew Wyeth in the late '50s, and I haven't changed my style since.

Robert Bateman

#33. Painting is such an individual profession. I'm not performing. There's no audience.

Jamie Wyeth

#34. Painting is as difficult as brain surgery. It's not that relaxing. But that's the discipline.

Jamie Wyeth

#35. We lived in my father's studio, so there were the brushes and the pencils and the paint. So it would - it was very natural for me to want to paint, I think, and it was never a question.

Jamie Wyeth

#36. It's a shock for me to go through and see all those years of painting my life, which is very personal for me. It's a very difficult thing for an artist to look back at his work.

Andrew Wyeth

#37. 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

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

Andrew Wyeth

#39. Ethan Wyeth: I hope you're thirsty."
Gideon Wyeth:"Why?"
Ethan: "Cause your dumb and ugly, but I can do something about thirsty.

Orson Scott Card

#40. All my problems and anxieties certainly come out of my work, and that's the way it should be. Other than that, relationships with people I find very, very simple.

Jamie Wyeth

#41. My father was a great inspiration, and there was a bit of competition between us. He'd work in his studio, and I'd work in my space, but the door was always half open.

Jamie Wyeth

#42. I am not a juicy painter.

Andrew Wyeth

#43. 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

#44. When I paint a portrait I want to know more than just the looks of the person. I want to know how they live and what their feelings are ... It then becomes more than just physiognomy, but the feel of the person.

Jamie Wyeth