Andrew Wyeth Quotes

I have improved the way in which I paint. The colours are cleaner and there is more energy in the brush work.

I have been told that some of my photographs maybe indicate that I am a painter.

I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw.

A painter doesn't need any talent. In fact, it's better not to have it.

Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.

I'm a painter first, and a musician second.

I had a natural feeling for sculpture, and the nudes are my sculpture.

I think with pictures; I'm a very lousy writer. If I write without pictures, I become this pathetic chick sitting somewhere trying to be interesting.

I've always been a fine artist.

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.

I've always seen myself as sort of this funky, eclectic artist.

Actually, yeah, I am an artist. I draw.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

You get used to it when you feel like you're an artist.

As a political artist, I think you have to learn how to create art, no matter what your ideology is.

Collage is not a kitchen sink; it's not a refuge for the compositionally disabled.

A great painter can paint something really complex, but they can crystallize it into something really simple.

What I hope 'Mastry' ends up doing is completely undermining or doing away with the notion that artists are a savant: that they do things that can't be articulated, driven by inner turmoil they don't have access to.

Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.

They [say] everybody's creative. Well, everybody is. But any real creativity has to rest on a basis of an acquired technique and an acquired knowledge; you can't be creative in a void, or you just get a mess.

My cubist paintings are my most Mexican.

Drawing is the root of everything.

For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn't produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?

I sometimes think I'm a mechanic. I just take pictures.