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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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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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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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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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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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
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There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it ill treated, is to me worse, more cruel and wicked than anything on earth.
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Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.
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Love has no age.
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Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age.
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I think a man is a man, and a man has a hairy chest, so let that be!
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I work with a bunch of producers on every album, but the difference for 'Evolver' was that I couldn't get any time with Kanye. I forget what he was doing at the time, but he was all over the place. We were never at the same city at the same time.
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I always knew I was a man, always felt that I was a man, always wanted to be a man.
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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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.
