"The most irritating experience for an artist is……" — Andrew Wyeth

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

— Andrew Wyeth

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43 Quotes by Andrew Wyeth

Andrew Wyeth has 43 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Believe in yourself and believe in love. Love something.
I don't think that there is anything that is really magical unless it has a terrifying quality.
What you have to do is break all the rules.
I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.
I think a person permeates a spot, and a lost presence makes the environment timeless to me, keeps an area…
If it [talent] isn’t strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it’s not worth much.
I can't work completely out of my imagination-I must put my foot in a bit of truth-and then I can…
I surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me.…
With watercolour, you can pick up the atmosphere, the temperature, the sound of snow shifting through the trees or over…
If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes…
To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no clothes…
Most artists look for something fresh to paint; frankly I find that quite boring. For me it is much more…

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Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor… — Chinua Achebe
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an… — Norman Ralph Augustine
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political… — Kevin Bacon
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I… — Erykah Badu
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint… — Erykah Badu

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