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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