A Quote by 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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Andrew Wyeth
American - Artist
July 12, 1917 - January 16, 2009

A work is finished when an artist realizes his intentions.

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Everything you do is about creating an experience in the viewer's head. If you're rude or irritating as a performer, then your magic is irritating.

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What I strive most to achieve in art is to make you forget the material. The sculptor must... communicate whatever struck his sensibility, so that a person beholding his work may experience in its entirety the emotion felt by the artist while he observed nature.

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My one failing as an artist is that I depend on reference material to perhaps a greater extent than I should. Delacroix said that if you can draw a man falling out of a window and have the drawing finished before he hits the ground then you're a real artist. I wasn't that kind of artist.

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How should an artist begin to do his work as an artist? I would insist that he begin his work as an artist by setting out to make a work of art.

Francis Schaeffer

... unless the actor is able to discourse most eloquently without opening his lips, he lacks the prime essential of a finished artist.

Julia Marlowe

My grandfather started his autobiography before he died; he never finished it. I would like to finish his autobiography because I finished mine.

Karrine Steffans

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Maya Angelou

To any man who has slaved to acquire skill in his art, it is most irritating to have his ability referred to as a “gift.”

Andrew Loomis

The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive and incorporeal realm. He must return to the material world in order to do his work. It's the artist's responsibility to balance mystical communication and the labor of creation.

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If an artist has no experience before he makes a painting or a sculpture, he is not an artist.

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Every artist thinks his most recent work is his best. If you didn't feel like that, you wouldn't do anything.

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The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.

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