Quotes About Originality

Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.

Most people don't do something seminal. I've done it twice: with my tent and my bed. Picasso did it with Cubism.

Art is either revolution or plagiarism

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas.

When it comes to words I have a uniqueness that I find almost impossible in art – and it's my words that actually make my art quite unique.

They'll sell you thousands of greens. Veronese green and emerald green and cadmium green and any sort of green you like; but that particular green, never.

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing.

As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.

There really is no such thing as Art. There are only artists.

The good thing about being an artist, is it's a legitimate way of looking at things cross-eyed.

A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.

Hardening of the categories causes art disease.

Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.

There is never a lack of subject matter; just absence of creativity.

Cerebration is the enemy of originality in art.

Art starts alone - and convinces society later.

I believe that every innovative thought comes from a creative mindset....A creative mindset is what drives our world, and art is the base of that.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal.

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.