Quotes by Andrew Wyeth

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Visual artist · American · 1917–2009

American visual artist (1917–2009)

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

“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.”

“If it [talent] isnt strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then its not worth much.”

“If it [talent] isn’t strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it’s not worth much.”

“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.”

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“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, w...”

— Andrew Wyeth

art history winter

“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

loss memory

“I think anything like that-which is contemplative, silent, shows a person alone-people always feel sad. Is it because we've lost the art of being alone?”

— Andrew Wyeth

alone contemplative

“If it [talent] isnt strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then its not worth much.”

— Andrew Wyeth

talent

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

— Andrew Wyeth

Art Deep Far

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

— Andrew Wyeth

Balance You Motion

“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.”