We lived in my father’s studio, so there were the brushes and the pencils and the paint. So it would – it was very natural for me to want to paint, I think, and it was never a question. – Jamie Wyeth
My father’s like – it’s as if he was transparent. He’s a man of great mystery, whereas apparently N.C. Wyeth was 6-feet, 2-inches tall, with a booming voice. I think that’s reflected in their work. – Jamie Wyeth
I had been elected to the National Academy of Design in New York, and one of the requirements was that you give a portrait, a self-portrait of yourself. – 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
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
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. – Jamie Wyeth
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. – Jamie Wyeth
With a creature, there’s no voice, so the eyes become the voice. When you get eye-to-eye contact, a real connection, it’s limitless – and incredibly thrilling. – Jamie Wyeth
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. – Jamie Wyeth
I’m a very boring person, and all I do is want to paint and to record what I feel moves me or what interests me, and that can be in the form of a pig or in the form of President Kennedy. – Jamie Wyeth
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. – 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 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
My father’s work is rather mysterious, not much said, and my grandfather’s is robust, bursting off the walls. – Jamie Wyeth
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. – 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
The real kiss of death – particularly with my father – is the extraordinary popularity of his work. – 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
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. – Jamie Wyeth
