Quotes from Andrew Wyeth

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

I'm not at all interested in painting the object just as it is in nature. Certainly I'm much more interested in the mood of a thing than the truth of a thing.

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.

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.

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

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

I think you have to use your eyes as well as your emotion, and one without the other just doesn't work

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.

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

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.

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.

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

My aim is to escape from the medium with which I work.

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

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

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.

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

What you have to do is break all the rules.

If somehow I can, before I leave this earth, combine my absolutely mad freedom and excitement with truth, then I will have done something.

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.