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- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I began drawing when I was nearly 3, and after finishing the sixth grade, I left school to paint and was tutored at home. My father didn't think a formal education was necessary for a painter.
- Hill
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a great inspiration, and there was a bit of competition between us. He'd work in his studio, and I'd work in my space, but the door was always half open.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real kiss of death - particularly with my father - is the extraordinary popularity of his work.
- Portrait
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- He Or She
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great thing about a painter is that he or she lives on - I mean, Andrew Wyeth is more in his paintings than he was walking around.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have continued to paint; my father - who was savaged by the critics - continued to paint until practically the last week of his life.
- Paint
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- Nov 07, 2020
The things that I paint are things that I know very well.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
The quality I most loved in Warhol - it was his sense of wonder. I mean, he was - absolutely everything was, 'Oh my God, isn't that wonderful!'. You know, and so it wasn't that he was cool and kind of calculated at all. He was very childlike.
- Off
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just can't whip off a likeness of somebody.
- Knowing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing is more uninteresting than completely knowing somebody, being totally at ease.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Animals are not cute. They are disturbing. Pigs do eat their young. Actually, I hate pigs. I just happen to have some who are friends of mine.
- Nov 07, 2020
Being a painter is the only profession where you have to stand there with all your shortcomings on the wall.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, this was an oxymoron, doing a painting of a dancer. Dancers are always moving.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought to live on an island was like living on a boat. Islands intrigue me. You can see the perimeters of your world. It's a microcosm.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father's like - it's as if he was transparent. He's a man of great mystery, whereas apparently N.C. Wyeth was 6-feet, 2-inches tall, with a booming voice. I think that's reflected in their work.
- Grandfather
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father's work is rather mysterious, not much said, and my grandfather's is robust, bursting off the walls.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole consideration of - ... am I being compared as such and such's grandson and son - that was minuscule compared to the problems I was having just working... I didn't have time to start worrying about who I was in the eyes of the public.
- Clothes
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- Nov 07, 2020
My aunt Caroline was really a character. She lived and worked in my grandfather's old house and even wore some of his clothes.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
From my earliest memories, my aunt was squirting out oil paint. I could just eat it. I would go from her studio and walk down to my father's house, and there he was, working in egg tempera.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Warhol had a huge effect on me. It wasn't that I sought it out. It was more of a natural evolution.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not just interested in fascinating faces or trees. I want to bore in deeper.
- Copies
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have copies of the books my grandfather illustrated for Scribner's in each house. I read those books all the time.
- Artists
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have hundreds of art books and the biographies of artists I love, such as Thomas Eakins and Edgar Degas.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of my reading is based on what I'm working on. I did a series of paintings based on the seven deadly sins, so I read Dante and then Milton's 'Paradise Lost.' That was a bit hard going.
- Animals
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mostly paint animals I'm familiar with, but I did a series of paintings of ravens, so I read everything about them.
- Boat
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, I always wanted to live on a boat.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020