Top 50 Quotes by Jamie Wyeth

I learned from a longtime farmer that pigs enjoy soothing music.

I mostly paint animals I'm familiar with, but I did a series of paintings of ravens, so I read everything about them.

The problem with having the name Wyeth is that immediately, when people hear the name, they all of a sudden see weathered barns in a field or something.

All my problems and anxieties certainly come out of my work, and that's the way it should be. Other than that, relationships with people I find very, very simple.

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.

As a child, I always wanted to live on a boat.

Being a painter is the only profession where you have to stand there with all your shortcomings on the wall.

Painting is such an individual profession. I'm not performing. There's no audience.

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

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.