Andrew Wyeth Quotes

I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.

The first audience that you have when writing a book is you.

I use myself for each part. Naturally, it's my body, it's my soul, it's my feelings. That's the only way I know how to work. I couldn't pretend.

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

I want the subject to be in control. Because they will give me something I couldn't possibly know about them.

I wrote lyrics that were intensely personal to me a few years ago. Maybe people know me better now.

I started writing songs by myself. That always came from whatever I was feeling and being honest about that because I never had any intention of anyone ever hearing them.

Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I make things, I don't care about the audience's response, I'm making them for myself. But I'm making them for myself as audience, because I want to wake myself up.

My work is intensely personal.

When you write, no matter what, it ends up personal.

I feel like my music at least allows me to release the other side of me, a more vulnerable and sensitive side.

Every now and then, as a composer and producer, it's important to write music for yourself.

There's nothing that compares with the time spent all by myself on a creation that is all my own. I still think of my solo work as my 'home planet' in comics, though I've learned to listen much more to editors and trusted friends for feedback.

My films are always a reflection of where I am in my life.

All my collections are based on something I like or something I'm dealing with. They are always deeply personal.

For me, 'Soul Deep' wasn't an easy thing to do.

Coming off 'Reflection,' what we really wanted to do was be more vulnerable.

I just worked my own personal thoughts into my music, and just kept at it until I found a way in.

I'm so proud of 'As She Pleases.' It's a really personal record, and I put so much of myself into it that; it feels like I am sharing part of my soul with the world by releasing it.

'True Romance' was definitely, in part, still me finding my voice as a writer. I was nervous, and I was a lot more shy. The album sounds bruised.

That's what writing is. It's moving past your fear.

How many of you are creative? I don't know, but for me, when you make a bunch of things over time and then you keep them... you forget. I look through my sketchbooks and I'm an audience for myself.

An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must not feel under any constraint.

Your greatest creation is your creative life. It's all in your hands. Rejection can't take it away; reviews can't take it away. The life you create for yourself as an artist, may be the only thing that's really yours. Create a life you can center yourself in calmly as you wait for your work to grow.

Most artists, ashamed of their need for encouragement, try to carry their work to term like a secret pregnancy.