Andrew Wyeth

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

“My people, my objects, breathe in a different way: there's another core—an excitement, a desire for discovery, a search for the unknown.”

“I am an illustrator. I have to have a story.”

“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.”

“The secret of my work is the fact that I'm not a modern artist and I'm not a modern man. I work with a certain amount of instinct and a great deal of phlegm.”

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

“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.”

“If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt is gone.”

“To be an artist is to believe in life.”

“I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes. I see no reason for painting but that. If I have anything to offer, it is my emotional contact with the place where I live and the people I do.”

“I paint my life.”

“There’s a terrific power in plainness.”

“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.”

“I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth, and then I can fly.”

“It's a moment of suspension. I wait until the model is completely unaware of me... then I act.”