Jamie Wyeth Quotes
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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.
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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.
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The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology.
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Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject.
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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.
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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.
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Painting is as difficult as brain surgery. It's not that relaxing. But that's the discipline.
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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.
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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.
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My interest in painting is recording things. I think of myself as almost a documentary filmmaker... I've gotten into some curious situations.
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