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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 ...
— Jamie Wyeth
As a child, I always wanted to live on a boat.
— Jamie Wyeth
The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology.
— Jamie Wyeth
My aunt Caroline was really a character. She lived and worked in my grandfather's old house and even wore some of his clothes.
— Jamie Wyeth
I have copies of the books my grandfather illustrated for Scribner's in each house. I read those books all the time.
— Jamie Wyeth
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
Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject.
— Jamie Wyeth
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
The great thing about a painter is that he or she lives on - I mean, Andrew Wyeth is more in his paintings than he was walking around.
— Jamie Wyeth
Painting is as difficult as brain surgery. It's not that relaxing. But that's the discipline.
— Jamie Wyeth
Animals are not cute. They are disturbing. Pigs do eat their young. Actually, I hate pigs. I just happen to have some who are friends of mine.
— Jamie Wyeth
I have continued to paint; my father - who was savaged by the critics - continued to paint until practically the last week of his life.
— Jamie Wyeth
I have hundreds of art books and the biographies of artists I love, such as Thomas Eakins and Edgar Degas.
— Jamie Wyeth
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.
— Jamie Wyeth
Nothing is more uninteresting than completely knowing somebody, being totally at ease.
— Jamie Wyeth
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
I thought to live on an island was like living on a boat. Islands intrigue me. You can see the perimeters of your world. It's a microcosm.
— Jamie Wyeth
Warhol had a huge effect on me. It wasn't that I sought it out. It was more of a natural evolution.
— Jamie Wyeth
I just can't whip off a likeness of somebody.
— Jamie Wyeth
Being a painter is the only profession where you have to stand there with all your shortcomings on the wall.
— Jamie Wyeth
I mostly paint animals I'm familiar with, but I did a series of paintings of ravens, so I read everything about them.
— Jamie Wyeth
My father's work is rather mysterious, not much said, and my grandfather's is robust, bursting off the walls.
— Jamie Wyeth