Jamie Wyeth

Artist

1946-07-06

Books by Jamie Wyeth

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I learned from a longtime farmer that pigs enjoy soothing music.
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I'm a terrible technician, and I have a very hard time painting.
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Nothing is more uninteresting than completely knowing somebody, being totally at ease.
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To me, dance is so ethereal and elusive, so much of an illusion. After a performance, that's it. With vocals and music, you have good recordings.
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Warhol had a huge effect on me. It wasn't that I sought it out. It was more of a natural evolution.
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The quality I most loved in Warhol - it was his sense of wonder. I mean, he was - absolutely everything was, 'Oh my God, isn't that wonderful!'. You know, and so it wasn't that he was cool and kind of calculated at all. He was very childlike.
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The problem with having the name Wyeth is that immediately, when people hear the name, they all of a sudden see weathered barns in a field or something.
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I never knew my grandfather. He died the year before I was born. But as a child, he did, of course, those wonderful illustrations, 'Treasure Island,' and whatnot.
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I just can't whip off a likeness of somebody.
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