Andrew Wyeth Quotes
At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.
Quotes to Explore
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In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
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I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.
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People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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I started to travel like this at the age of 15 so for me, it's normal. Some days you get tired and you feel, 'I want to stay at home a little bit more,' but it's only the moment.
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The most common form of giantism is a condition called acromegaly, and acromegaly is caused by a benign tumor on your pituitary gland that causes an overproduction of human growth hormone. And throughout history, many of the most famous giants have all had acromegaly.
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I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.
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Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.
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Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
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Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.
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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
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I saw things at an early age because my mom was a theater actress. I did a play with her when I was 10 years old.
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From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, listening to The Beatles and Carly Simon and Lionel Richie. The old LPs used to have the lyrics. From there, I would put on dance and music displays for my family, just to entertain them and make people laugh and smile.
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A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.
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My painting does not come from the easel.
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Sunlight is painting.
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I am 54 and age is slowly writing itself on my face.
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Three or four years ago a distinguished Frenchman, M. Hovelacque, published an article on America in the Revue de Paris in which he maintained that the essential weakness of our American civilization lay in the failure of our education to produce any equivalent of the superior man of Confucius or the καλὸς κἀγαθός of the Greeks.
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From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media.
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We Americans are hard on almost everything. We are hard on our vehicles, our marriages and our heroes. Mostly, however, we are hard on ourselves.
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I've been through almost every type of obsession as far as music genres go, so I usually say I just like a good song, but the songs that are the most universal that a person on the other side of the world knows and can relate to is a very powerful entity.
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At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.
