Andrew Wyeth Quotes

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it.

My paintings are reflections of my own inner mysteries... they all reflect my relationship to my steadiest of companions and muses - nature and animals.

I love to get into a landscape and paint my horses.

Even the dullest bird or face becomes interesting when you give it a good look in the wild/flesh. The way the shadow drops across the cheek, the light hits an eyebrow, etc... there are many more angles, positions etc. than you can ever imagine. My heart always makes a little jump when I see things in birds or faces that surprise me.

I'm just a landscape painter. I look out the window and I see what's going on, and I paint it. While I'm painting it, I also write thoughts about what I see going on out there.

As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.

When I wake up, I can't wait to get to the studio, go into the paint room.

If you kill the arts, you kill love, and you kill progress.

A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person.

One of my biggest Disney influences in terms of world-building on this record was a background painter named Eyvind Earle, who was working in the '50s. He would make hyper-modern shapes that were sharp retellings of pastoral themes.

I don't write about nature, but I'm definitely very inspired by it.

The power of nature is what all art strives to be. The more we can get in tune with the harmony of the planet, the more our art can benefit from that relationship.

I believe it is one's duty to paint the rich and magnificent aspects of nature. We need gaiety and happiness, hope and love.

Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.

Nature is my main source of inspiration - I will never stop taking hints from what I call 'the greatest artist'

A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental; they necessarily are reflected in his theology.

That impulse I think is a form of love. Poetry is something that comes to you, rather than your having to work out its form beforehand.

Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms.

There has never been a painting that was more beautiful than nature. The model does not unfold herself to you, you must rise to her. She should be the inspiration for your painting. No man has ever over-appreciated a human being.

Try to walk as much as you can, and keep your love for nature, for that is the true way to learn to understand art more and more. Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see her. If one really loves nature, one can find beauty everywhere.

The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.