Quotes About Originality

I don't believe too much in originality... you learn art from other art and then looking into somebody's face or landscape is the point of departure to do your work of art.

This idea of art for art's sake is a hoax.

The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.

An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.

And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

In the art game we do our own cooking.

When art dresses itself in the most worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

Don't think about making art.

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

Art has got nothing to do with taste.

Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.

There is nothing ugly in art except that which is without character, that is to say, that which offers no outer or inner truth.

Fashion should go back to what it should be: closer to art, not totally commercial but have some artistic value at its core.

I'd rather produce art than become art.

I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having.

There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.

The definition of art has to shift whenever an innovator appears.

One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but bad ones vomit it forth.

The climax of absurdity to which art may be carried when led away from nature by fashion, may be best seen in the works of Boucher.

art itself shuns commonality: while the scientist may seek the phenomenon that repeats itself, the artist seeks the exception.

It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Some people who look at abstract art say 'I could do that.' A good response is, 'Go ahead but then you'll be accused of copying.

Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.