If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.
Andrew WyethMost artists look for something fresh to paint; frankly I find that quite boring. For me it is much more exciting to find fresh meaning in something familiar.
Andrew WyethTo 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.
Andrew WyethI'm not at all interested in painting the object just as it is in nature. Certainly I'm much more interested in the mood of a thing than the truth of a thing.
Andrew WyethIt's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.
Andrew WyethI have a good friend, Rudolf Serkin, the pianist, a very sensitive man. I was talking to him one day backstage after a concert and I told him that I thought he had played particularly sensitively that day. I said, "You know, many pianists are brilliant, they strike the keys so well, but somehow you are different." "Ah," he said, "I don't think you should ever strike a key. You should pull the keys with your fingers."
Andrew Wyeth