Jamie Wyeth famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Painting to me is constant searching. I can see what I want, but I can't get there, and yet you have to be open enough that if it goes another way, then let it go that way.
-- Jamie Wyeth

#Let It Go #Want #Way
Interesting is when one can produce a picture that is pretty, but with undercurrents. The metaphor that comes to mind is in the poems of Robert Frost.
-- Jamie Wyeth

#Interesting #Mind #Frost
I'm an odd portrait painter in that I'm not just interested in human faces. I consider almost all of my paintings to be portraits.
-- Jamie Wyeth

#Portraits #Portraiture #Faces
When I paint a portrait I want to know more than just the looks of the person. I want to know how they live and what their feelings are... It then becomes more than just physiognomy, but the feel of the person.
-- Jamie Wyeth

#Feelings #Portraits #Looks
Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject.
-- Jamie Wyeth

#Portraits #Portraiture #Paint
When painting portraits a lot of people say, 'Why not get a photograph of the person?' Photography is wonderful and it is an art form in itself, but... my portrait is a culmination of elements... a truer image of a person than just the 'click' of a snapshot.
-- Jamie Wyeth

#Photography #Art #People
My interest in painting is recording things. I think of myself as almost a documentary filmmaker... I've gotten into some curious situations...
-- Jamie Wyeth

#Thinking #Documentaries #Painting
The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology.
-- Jamie Wyeth

#Portraits #Danger #Methodology
Painting to me is addictive. These are moments when it is inspiring, but they are few and far between. I keep my tools sharpened for the moment when things do start clicking, but that doesn't happen a lot. I really have to push myself sometimes. Painting is a profession in which it is very easy to be lazy, particularly if you have any degree of success.
-- Jamie Wyeth

#Lazy #Degrees #Tools
Painting is as difficult as brain surgery. It's not that relaxing. But that's the discipline.
-- Jamie Wyeth

#Discipline #Brain #Painting

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