Quotes About Originality

Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture... it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.

I fight for the debunking of the artist and an end to individual pictures.

If a man wants to be an artist, he must never look at pictures.

I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.

I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.

I think of a piece, and then people who are competent fabricate it. But lately I've started finger painting, which probably should be a joke but isn't!

If I had to give one piece of advice to incoming college freshmen, I'd say always be true to yourself.

I love to wear original pieces you can't find just anywhere.

When I go into making a movie, personally, I don't try to bring other pieces of movies with me.

If you look at any creative person's work, you can see bits and pieces of their influences. That's what an artist does.

It was different to what everyone else was doing. It was very hard to pigeonhole The Cranberries. And we were just huge; it was just sensational.

'Scott Pilgrim' is something that was a little bit more difficult to put in one box. But, to me, that's not necessarily a bad thing about the movie.

I said, I don't want to paint things like Picasso's women and Matisse's odalisques lying on couches with pillows. I don't want to paint people. I want to paint something I have never seen before. I don't want to make what I'm looking at. I want the fragments.

At the end of the day, it's really, really difficult to make a brand-new show, to write a pilot where you have to introduce characters and everyone has to kind of be dynamic and have something different for themselves.

I think the fact that I've always been left or right of mainstream cowboy hats and boots has made me hard to pin down.

When I did pink, I did it so I wouldn't be dressing like everybody else.

There are some beautiful things about people like Katy Perry, who are bold enough to go up on a pink cotton-candy cloud, with a guitar, in a tutu, and sing all by herself.

The real product at Diesel is satisfaction. My satisfaction at Diesel is being a pioneer.

I've always taken it upon myself to be a pioneer or a leader, and create a different sound, not just go by what the radio is playing at the time.

I love the pioneers like Sam Cooke and Otis Redding, but when I write music, it comes out in my own way.

Pioneering companies always try out new things and experiment with new concepts and new things.

Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.

I'm not a pirate. I'm an innovator.

If you want to get my attention, wear a pirate outfit.