Quotes About Originality

In this age of fiberglass, I'm searching for a gem.

If it looks like art, chances are it's somebody else's art.

If you're wandering the streets, talking in gibberish, nobody ever asks you to change anything about your art because there's no context for people to look at what you do.

We were all imitative. We all wandered in after Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay. We were all being dashing and gallant, declaring we weren't virgins, whether we were or not.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Art should never try to be popular.

Precepts, conventions - above all traditions - have no value in art.

Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.

If some of the greats had followed the traditional ways we would be missing so much fine art.

Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art.

The artist is called a creator.

there is art and there is official art, there always has been and there always will be.

An art form requires genius. People of genius are always troublemakers, meaning they start from scratch, demolish accepted norms, and rebuild a new world.

Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art.

Normal people do not create art.

Why dont they stick to murder and leave art to us?

There is no best anything in art.

My art flatters nobody by imitation, it courts nobody by smoothness, nobody by petitelieness without either fal-de-lal or fiddle-de-dee; how then can I hope to be popular?

We are the ORIGIN of our art, its homeland. Viewed this way, ORIGINALITY is the process of remaining true to ourselves.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art.

We have to take risks with art. If we don't, it all becomes a bit boring

Immature ists imitate. Mature ists steal.

My guitar player calls the process of writing lyrics based on another story, "filling up the well" when you can get inspiration from other people's art without stealing, more being influenced by it.

Like everyone, I want to make my own "fine art."