Andrew Wyeth Quotes & Sayings

“It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.”

“One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.”

“I love to study the many things that grow below the corn stalks and bring them back to the studio to study the color. If one could only catch that true color of nature - the very thought of it drives me mad.”

“I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it... I always want to see the third dimension of something... I want to come alive with the object.”

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

“It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.”

“I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.”

“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.”

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

“I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.”