Quotes About Individuality

Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of borrowed thought.

To create art means to be crazy alone forever.

For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.

For one year I did go to Performing Arts School, and I had very weird friends.

Each body has its art.

The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to cover his tracks, the bloody trail of his assault against reality and others.

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.

To me, ultimately, martial arts means honestly expressing yourself.

Art is always good. It just depends if you like or not.

Art is the escape from personality.

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.

In this art form, in any art form, generalities are useless.

I, in the end, make art for myself.

Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that.

The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of ones own, in ones relation to the tool, the material and the colors.

What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know ... I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill.

I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy.

Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.

In the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the nonbelongers, the different ones, the outlaws, the freaks.

My art side is free and there are no strings attached.

If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts.

I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody said that she does not look like it, but that does not make any difference, she will, he said.

When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artist to be themselves. That decided it for me. I was a corny kind of guy, so I went in for corn.