Jamie Wyeth Quotes

I have copies of the books my grandfather illustrated for Scribner's in each house. I read those books all the time.

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• We lived in my father's studio, so there were the brushes and the pencils and the paint. So it would - it was very natural for me to want to paint, I think, and it was never a question.

  

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• Nothing is more uninteresting than completely knowing somebody, being totally at ease.

  

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• Warhol had a huge effect on me. It wasn't that I sought it out. It was more of a natural evolution.

  

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• I spent a lot of time alone; I left school to be tutored. So, most of my companions were animals. It's as simple as that. I knew more animals than I did people.

  

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• Painting is a field that attracts a lot of lazy people. You can just sort of sit and wait for things to come to you. I know a lot of painters who'll sit and chat it up all night. But God, I just can't do that.

  

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• 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.

  

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• I have hundreds of art books and the biographies of artists I love, such as Thomas Eakins and Edgar Degas.

  

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• My sketchbooks are usually just a line on one page or a circle, which to most people must be totally meaningless. But to me, they are very important to the thing I am working on.

  

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• I paint every day. I really have no hobbies. That's all I do.

  

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• I thought to live on an island was like living on a boat. Islands intrigue me. You can see the perimeters of your world. It's a microcosm.

  

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• My father was a great inspiration, and there was a bit of competition between us. He'd work in his studio, and I'd work in my space, but the door was always half open.

  

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• The real kiss of death - particularly with my father - is the extraordinary popularity of his work.

  

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• Growing up in Chadds Ford, Pa., I shuttled between studio space in my parents' house and my grandfather's studio just up the hill. It was a solitary childhood, but I loved it.

  

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• To me, dance is so ethereal and elusive, so much of an illusion. After a performance, that's it. With vocals and music, you have good recordings.

  

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• There's a quality of life in Maine which is this singular and unique. I think. It's absolutely a world onto itself.

  

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• The whole consideration of - ... am I being compared as such and such's grandson and son - that was minuscule compared to the problems I was having just working... I didn't have time to start worrying about who I was in the eyes of the public.

  

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• Dance looks absurd on film, I think, like little puppets moving around.

  

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

  

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• I had been elected to the National Academy of Design in New York, and one of the requirements was that you give a portrait, a self-portrait of yourself.

  

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• I have continued to paint; my father - who was savaged by the critics - continued to paint until practically the last week of his life.

  

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• 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.

  

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• From my earliest memories, my aunt was squirting out oil paint. I could just eat it. I would go from her studio and walk down to my father's house, and there he was, working in egg tempera.

  

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• To me, this was an oxymoron, doing a painting of a dancer. Dancers are always moving.

  

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• 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.

  

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