“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.”
Andrew Wyeth“It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.”
Andrew Wyeth“It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.”
Andrew Wyeth“If it [talent] isn’t strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it’s not worth much.”
Andrew Wyeth“I think a person permeates a spot, and a lost presence makes the environment timeless to me, keeps an area alive. It pulsates because of that.”
Andrew Wyeth“I do an awful lot of thinking and dreaming about things in the past and the future - the timelessness of the rocks and the hills - all the people who have existed there. I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show.”
Andrew Wyeth“I think anything like that-which is contemplative, silent, shows a person alone-people always feel sad. Is it because we've lost the art of being alone?”
Andrew Wyeth, The Helga Pictures