Andrew Wyeth Quotes

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.

The artist is called a creator.

There may never be anything new to say, but there is always a new way to say it, and since, in art, the way of saying a thing becomes a part of what is said, every work of art is unique and requires fresh attention.

An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

I was being an artist, being sensitive and technical as artists are. I'm sure Leonardo Da Vinci did that. Artists don't always feel the same as others feel about their work.

There is nothing new in art except talent.

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal.

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

You have to be creative. It's the basics. You can't be Picasso unless you know how to draw a real face; then you can turn it upside down.

It's intimidating any time to have a piece of art that someone else created, and that person says, 'Let's see what you created based on what I created.'

I think art, at its best, happens on a conscious and a subconscious level.

All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!

I think being an artist is having the courage to be original. Many great artists, including Picasso, have all been influenced by the great master paintings... And then finally, they leap, they take off... they become themselves. Then it looks like they just came out of nowhere. Just like 'Pow!'

Artists are people who are not at all interested in the facts - only in the truth.

I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.

So is fighting incompleteness the source of artistic neurosis? I doubt it. At most, this would apply to artists who deal with particular kinds of problems. I don't think we should think of Haydn or Mozart or Dickens or George Eliot in these terms.

As an artist, you have the job of working out whatever is given you to work out.

The artist does not really create; he discovers.

My mom is an artist and my own fiction is deeply visual.

The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.