Andrew Wyeth Artist Quotations

One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth; and then I can fly free.

I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

Most artists look for something fresh to paint; frankly I find that quite boring. For me it is much more exciting to find fresh meaning in something familiar.

The most irritating experience for an artist is to have his work criticized before it is finished.

It's a shock for me to go through and see all those years of painting my life, which is very personal for me. It's a very difficult thing for an artist to look back at his work.

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show.