American - Artist | July 6, 1946 -
There's a quality of life in Maine which is this singular and unique. I think. It's absolutely a world onto itself.
Jamie Wyeth
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I learned from a longtime farmer that pigs enjoy soothing music.
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Really, if you get to know pigs, they're very moody. They're not sweet little animals at all. That's what I like about them. They get depressed; they get into these snits. They're carnivorous.
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As a child, I always wanted to live on a boat.
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I paint every day. I really have no hobbies. That's all I do.
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Being a painter is the only profession where you have to stand there with all your shortcomings on the wall.
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I'm a terrible technician, and I have a very hard time painting.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The real kiss of death - particularly with my father - is the extraordinary popularity of his work.
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