Jamie Wyeth Quotes

Jamie Wyeth

American Artist

Born: Jul 6, 1946

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Most of my reading is based on what I'm working on. I did a series of paintings based on the seven deadly sins, so I read Dante and then Milton's 'Paradise Lost.' That was a bit hard going. Jamie Wyeth

Paradise Reading Lost Seven Bit Dante Most Read Deadly Sins Did Going Then Working Hard Paintings Series Based Milton

My sketchbooks are usually just a line on one page or a circle, which to most people must be totally meaningless. But to me, they are very important to the thing I am working on. Jamie Wyeth

Me People Circle Important Must Totally Most Am Line Very Just Which Meaningless Working Page Thing

Oddly enough, my grandfather probably had more of an influence on me than my father. Jamie Wyeth

Me Father Enough More Had Oddly Than Influence Grandfather

My father, whose work I adore... was down working on little things of grass and dead birds. Well, that didn't interest me. As an 8-year-old kid, I wanted knights in armor and so forth. Jamie Wyeth

I'm a very strange painter. I don't wake up one day and say, 'God, isn't this a fantastic day, I'd better get out and paint!' I think my father's more that way, because he's very fast. Jamie Wyeth

I immediately doubt things if I become satisfied with them. Being satisfied by something is a real danger for me. I hope I never lose that. That would be death. Jamie Wyeth

Death Hope Me Become Lose Doubt Satisfied Danger Immediately Would Would-Be Something Never Real Being Them Things

I view anything on this farm as model. I actually painted Union Rags as a yearling. Jamie Wyeth

Farm Model Anything View Union Painted Rags Actually

Painting is such an individual profession. I'm not performing. There's no audience. Jamie Wyeth

Painting Individual Performing Audience Profession

Painting is a field that attracts a lot of lazy people. You can just sort of sit and wait for things to come to you. I know a lot of painters who'll sit and chat it up all night. But God, I just can't do that. Jamie Wyeth

Art was a way of life in my family. My grandfather, N.C. Wyeth, who died a year before I was born, had been a prominent painter. So was my father, Andrew. My two aunts and two of my uncles also earned a living as painters. Jamie Wyeth

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. Jamie Wyeth

Education Home School Father Think Drawing Finishing Left Began Grade Sixth Formal After Formal Education Paint Painter Nearly Necessary

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. Jamie Wyeth

Space Parents Solitary Studio Between Hill House Ford Up Childhood Just Loved Pa Grandfather Growing Growing Up

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. Jamie Wyeth

Work Great Competition Space Father Half Bit Inspiration Open He Studio Between Always His Door Us

I paint every day. I really have no hobbies. That's all I do. Jamie Wyeth

Day Every Day Every Hobbies Really Paint

To me, this was an oxymoron, doing a painting of a dancer. Dancers are always moving. Jamie Wyeth

Me Painting Dancer Dancers Always Doing Oxymoron Moving

Dance looks absurd on film, I think, like little puppets moving around. Jamie Wyeth

Dance Think Puppets Absurd Like Looks Around Little Moving Film

The whole consideration of - ... am I being compared as such and such's grandson and son - that was minuscule compared to the problems I was having just working... I didn't have time to start worrying about who I was in the eyes of the public. Jamie Wyeth

Time Eyes Son Problems Consideration Worrying About Having Am Just Being Public Working Grandson Who Whole Compared Start

From my earliest memories, my aunt was squirting out oil paint. I could just eat it. I would go from her studio and walk down to my father's house, and there he was, working in egg tempera. Jamie Wyeth

I'm not just interested in fascinating faces or trees. I want to bore in deeper. Jamie Wyeth

Trees Bore Faces Just Want Interested Fascinating Deeper

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