To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.
From Andrew Wyeth
I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.
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 can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth; and then I can fly free.
At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.
To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no clothes on. It's terrible.
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