63 Quotes by Jamie Wyeth

I view anything on this farm as model. I actually painted Union Rags as a yearling.

Art was a way of life in my family. My grandfather, N.C. Wyeth, who died a year before I was born, had been a prominent painter. So was my father, Andrew. My two aunts and two of my uncles also earned a living as painters.

I'm not just interested in fascinating faces or trees. I want to bore in deeper.

I learned from a longtime farmer that pigs enjoy soothing music.

I just can't whip off a likeness of somebody.

I immediately doubt things if I become satisfied with them. Being satisfied by something is a real danger for me. I hope I never lose that. That would be death.

I mostly paint animals I'm familiar with, but I did a series of paintings of ravens, so I read everything about them.

I never knew my grandfather. He died the year before I was born. But as a child, he did, of course, those wonderful illustrations, 'Treasure Island,' and whatnot.

I'm a very strange painter. I don't wake up one day and say, 'God, isn't this a fantastic day, I'd better get out and paint!' I think my father's more that way, because he's very fast.