This evening I watched an old South Bank Show about Andrew Wyeth. What he had to say on the subject of painting was very interesting. Firstly he described how other painters had turned from realism to abstract painting because, in their words, they had "exhausted the possibilities" of realism. Wyeth's riposte to that was that they had exhausted the possibilities within themselves, and revealed their own shallowness. The other point he made, a couple of times, was that you had to wait for the perfect moment in time to capture a picture. He said that taking a photo (or painting from a photo) doesn't suffice, because you have to be present in the moment.
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