Top 16 Quotes by Andrew Wyeth

To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to 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 surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.

To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no clothes on. It's terrible.

I'm a secretive bastard. I would never let anybody watch me painting... it would be like somebody watching you have sex - painting is that personal to me.

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.

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 dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.

One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.