Top 50 Quotes by Jamie Wyeth

I have continued to paint; my father - who was savaged by the critics - continued to paint until practically the last week of his life.

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

I immediately doubt things if I become satisfied with them. Being satisfied by something is a real danger for me. I hope I never lose that. That would be death.

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.

My sketchbooks are usually just a line on one page or a circle, which to most people must be totally meaningless. But to me, they are very important to the thing I am working on.

To me, dance is so ethereal and elusive, so much of an illusion. After a performance, that's it. With vocals and music, you have good recordings.

I just can't whip off a likeness of somebody.

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

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

Dance looks absurd on film, I think, like little puppets moving around.