82 Quotes by Andrew Wyeth

My struggle is to preserve that abstract flash – like something you caught out of the corner of your eye, but in the picture you can look at it directly.

My pencil is like a fencer’s foil.

I don’t really have studios. I wander around around people’s attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.

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 wanted to get it all down, maybe out of my system. I wanted to be able to say, Everything’s possible-if you believe and can get excited.

To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me. If I have an emotion, before I die, that’s deeper than any emotion that I’ve ever had, then I will paint a more powerful picture that will have nothing to do with just technique, but will go beyond it.

I’ve never studied the Japanese. That’s something that must have crept in there. But the Japanese are my biggest clients. They seem to like the elemental quality.

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure in the landscape – the loneliness of it – the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it – the whole story doesn’t show.

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