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The real kiss of death - particularly with my father - is the extraordinary popularity of his work.

- Jamie Wyeth
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Jamie Wyeth
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I spent a lot of time alone; I left school to be tutored. So, most of my companions were animals. It's as simple as that. I knew more animals than I did people.

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.

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.

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.

All my problems and anxieties certainly come out of my work, and that's the way it should be. Other than that, relationships with people I find very, very simple.

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

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

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

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 real kiss of death - particularly with my father - is the extraordinary popularity of his work.

The real kiss of death - particularly with my father - is the extraordinary popularity of his work.

The real kiss of death - particularly with my father - is the extraordinary popularity of his work.

The real kiss of death - particularly with my father - is the extraordinary popularity of his work.

The real kiss of death - particularly with my father - is the extraordinary popularity of his work.

The real kiss of death - particularly with my father - is the extraordinary popularity of his work.

The real kiss of death - particularly with my father - is the extraordinary popularity of his work.

The real kiss of death - particularly with my father - is the extraordinary popularity of his work.

The real kiss of death - particularly with my father - is the extraordinary popularity of his work.

The real kiss of death - particularly with my father - is the extraordinary popularity of his work.

The real kiss of death - particularly with my father - is the extraordinary popularity of his work.

The real kiss of death - particularly with my father - is the extraordinary popularity of his work.

The real kiss of death - particularly with my father - is the extraordinary popularity of his work.

The real kiss of death - particularly with my father - is the extraordinary popularity of his work.

The real kiss of death - particularly with my father - is the extraordinary popularity of his work.