82 Quotes by Andrew Wyeth

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

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

To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.

I'm a secretive bastard. I would never let anybody watch me painting... it would be like somebody watching you have sex - painting is that personal to me.

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

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.

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.

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 surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.