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Dance looks absurd on film, I think, like little puppets moving around.

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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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.

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.

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.

My father's work is rather mysterious, not much said, and my grandfather's is robust, bursting off the walls.

The whole consideration of - ... am I being compared as such and such's grandson and son - that was minuscule compared to the problems I was having just working... I didn't have time to start worrying about who I...

My aunt Caroline was really a character. She lived and worked in my grandfather's old house and even wore some of his clothes.

From my earliest memories, my aunt was squirting out oil paint. I could just eat it. I would go from her studio and walk down to my father's house, and there he was, working in egg tempera.

Warhol had a huge effect on me. It wasn't that I sought it out. It was more of a natural evolution.

I'm not just interested in fascinating faces or trees. I want to bore in deeper.

I have copies of the books my grandfather illustrated for Scribner's in each house. I read those books all the time.

I have hundreds of art books and the biographies of artists I love, such as Thomas Eakins and Edgar Degas.

Most of my reading is based on what I'm working on. I did a series of paintings based on the seven deadly sins, so I read Dante and then Milton's 'Paradise Lost.' That was a bit hard going.

I mostly paint animals I'm familiar with, but I did a series of paintings of ravens, so I read everything about them.

As a child, I always wanted to live on a boat.

I'm a terrible technician, and I have a very hard time painting.

My sketchbooks are usually just a line on one page or a circle, which to most people must be totally meaningless. But to me, they are very important to the thing I am working on.

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.

Oddly enough, my grandfather probably had more of an influence on me than my father.

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