Quotes About Originality

In art there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists

Every great artist has the sense of provocation.

All art is a form of artifice.For in art there can be no prejudices.

Conceptual art is only good if the idea is good.

The moment you try to institutionalize art, it ceases to be art.

Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real.

The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to entertain, to make things up. The art of what I do lies not in research or even recollection but primarily in invention.

You must neither completely nor partially copy the art of others. If so, you will be producing kitsch.

Art should be born from the materials.

Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.

Maybe in any art you have to be wholly you in the context of whatever you're doing.

If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.

As my uncle always says, 'If your vibe outweighs your substance, you're destined to be a novelty.' I think that is true in all art.

Art cannot progress by sticking to what is already familiar.

I don't think I am going to do pictures which are anything like Renaissance art.

No art should be fashionable.

Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.

The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.

When you steal from an artist you are stealing their blood, sweat and tears.

I don't believe in selling art by transparencies. Art is a firsthand experience.

All art is based on non-conformity.

I'm not interested in pop art.

The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.