Jamie Wyeth Quotes

Making art is different for everyone.

But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

I'll take anything and slap it on a canvas.

I suppose I consider my work a kind of picture making.

I don't see myself as a photographer. I still see the photographs and collages as a resource for the painting.

Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.

All I care about these days is painting — photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of instant drawing.

I seldom have my stuff up unless I'm testing it. If I'm worrying about a painting, I put it up and see if I detest it quickly or slowly. Otherwise I have things by other artists.

I start a picture and I finish it.

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

When I make a picture, I make love.

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

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

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.

I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.

By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.

Ironically, my paintings don't photograph well.

I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.

I can bring in all these different components, and I marry these components, and I let them get traversed by the viewer, who reorganizes them.

In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?