82 Quotes by Andrew Wyeth

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.

Believe in yourself and believe in love. Love something.

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.

Don’t overdo it, don’t underdo it. Do it just on the line.

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

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.

God, I’ve frozen my ass off painting snow scenes!

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

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.