Andrew Wyeth

I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.

To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.

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

I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.

If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.

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.

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.

It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.

At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.

It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.

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