Top 50 Quotes by Jamie Wyeth

Oddly enough, my grandfather probably had more of an influence on me than my father.

The things that I paint are things that I know very well.

I'm a very boring person, and all I do is want to paint and to record what I feel moves me or what interests me, and that can be in the form of a pig or in the form of President Kennedy.

We lived in my father's studio, so there were the brushes and the pencils and the paint. So it would - it was very natural for me to want to paint, I think, and it was never a question.

I paint every day. I really have no hobbies. That's all I do.

I'm a terrible technician, and I have a very hard time painting.

Growing up in Chadds Ford, Pa., I shuttled between studio space in my parents' house and my grandfather's studio just up the hill. It was a solitary childhood, but I loved it.

I never knew my grandfather. He died the year before I was born. But as a child, he did, of course, those wonderful illustrations, 'Treasure Island,' and whatnot.

Nothing is more uninteresting than completely knowing somebody, being totally at ease.

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