Quotes About Originality

I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions... Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them.

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.

For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.

Surprise is key in all art.

Artists everywhere steal mercilessly all the time and I think this is healthy.

A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.

The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

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.

Whoever you are, if you know what you're doing, you don't want other people to overtake the merit of your art.

The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.

When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost.

Art is not special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself if it is good.

Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it's in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one's own.

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

I worked with someone else's photos; I cropped them in whatever way I wanted and put words on top of them. I knew how to do it with my eyes closed. Why couldn't that be my art?

There is no such thing as exaggerated art. I even believe that there is salvation only in extreme.

Creativity is an act of defiance.

Great art stretches the taste, it doesn't follow tastes.

Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't.

Most authors steal their works, or buy.

Nothing so resembles a daub as a masterpiece.

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.