Top 50 Quotes by Jamie Wyeth

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

Warhol had a huge effect on me. It wasn't that I sought it out. It was more of a natural evolution.

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.

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

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.

My father's work is rather mysterious, not much said, and my grandfather's is robust, bursting off the walls.

The real kiss of death - particularly with my father - is the extraordinary popularity of his work.

My aunt Caroline was really a character. She lived and worked in my grandfather's old house and even wore some of his clothes.