Andrew Wyeth Quotes

Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.

I think anything I do will have an island feel, but I don't want it to be just that; I don't want to be put in a box.

The goal with 'Alpha' was to run towards the cliches and then to break through them, and that doesn't change depending on the medium.

Art is much more confined by materials than writing is.

The very expectation that an actor loves to experiment becomes a shackle that is difficult to snap out of.

When we discovered cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.

I love the idea of messing around with different mediums.

The essential in artistic creativity is victory over the burden of necessity. In art, man lives outside himself, outside his burdens, the burdens of life. Every creative artistic act is a partial transfiguration of life. In the artistic concept man breaks out through the heaviness of the world. In the creative-artistic attitude towards this world we catch a glimpse of another world.

There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.

An artist must smash down the systems that domesticate the mind.

We have our brush and colors - paint Paradise and in we go.

The reason I feel like I act is because you get to live a million different lives in one. I don't have to go about my life.

Part of the reason that these attempts at explanation fail, I think, is that photographers, like all artists, choose their medium because it allows them the most fully truthful expression of their vision... as Robert Frost told a person who asked him what one of his poems meant, 'You want me to say it worse?'

A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting with than wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric.

The best songs are the songs you write that you don't know anything about. They're an escape.

When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise... In everyday life I was usually bored and vexed... Starting to paint I felt gloriously free.

I had been working purely abstractly for so long, it was important for me to see whether I was working abstractly because I couldn't work any other way, or whether I was doing it out of choice.

It's dangerous when music gets cornered by anything.

Anything is good painting material once you get to know it.

If you can create a reality that is entirely fictitious, it doesn't owe anything to this stuff out here, but you interact with it on your own terms. I mean, if you took it to the point where finally you get, say, tactile feedback, so you were wired in in terms of the whole nervous system. The sensorium. You would have the ultimate art form. I mean, any painter would want it, any filmmaker would want access to it you know, any musician would want access to it. It would eliminate the need for the divisions between what we describe as the arts, converting the whole thing to experience.

I ripped through the blue shade of the constraints of color.

The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.

The aim of art is to create space.

A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit. He cannot, like the poet or historian, expatiate, and impress the mind.

To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them - in a word, to create a living art - this has been my aim.