Top 16 Quotes by Andrew Wyeth

To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.

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.

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.

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

At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.