Quotes About Originality

Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.

Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it falls into will come later.

All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

Bad critics judge a work of art by comparing it to pre-existing theories. They always go wrong when confronted with a masterpiece because masterpieces make their own rules.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

Lifestyle is the art of discovering ways to live uniquely.

Art should never be sociological; it has got to be timeless. It's got to be your vision and how you can represent the world you see.

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as their activity becomes more and more extraordinary.

I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made.

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms.

The video camera dominates art. It's a bore, it makes everything look a bit the same. If you look at things with a pencil and paper in your hand, you are going to see far more.

I don't like hype cluttering art.

Creativity is the art of concealing your sources.

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.

Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation

All art is but imitation of nature.

I hate studio. For me, studio is a trap to overproduce and repeat yourself. It is a habit that leads to art pollution.

You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.

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

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.