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Quotes About Originality

You really can't bring about anything new with art
~ Martin Kippenberger
my credo is very short. Its first article is art - and its second is art - and its third is art!
~ Mary Augusta Ward
Customer research produces bland products. We're producing a piece of art.
~ Michael Arrington
The danger of art created to rise above the noise is that it may end up being noise itself.
~ Michael Gungor
If I wasn't an actress I'd definitely want to do something in the arts and something that was very creative.
~ Nikki DeLoach
I use whatever media I think will best express my ideas and therefore I don't have a lot invested in the idea of photography specifically. I am more interested in Art.
~ Patricia Piccinini
I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.
~ Paul Cezanne
Movies have been doing so much of the same thing - in slightly different ways - for so long that few of the possibilities of this great hybrid art have yet been explored.
~ Pauline Kael
I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.
~ Queen Latifah
Art should never be popular.
~ Oscar Wilde
You say your image is new, but it looks well tested.
~ Ray Davies
Even if it's such a lowly art as TV, you've got to get stuff off your chest, because that's what makes something different and original, your particular take on stuff.
~ Ricky Gervais
Repetition is the death of art.
~ Robin Green
To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The search for the right answer is the enemy of art.
~ Seth
I wonder if real art comes when you build the thing that they don't have a prize for yet.
~ Seth Godin
There can be no formula in arts. Formulas are for factory mass productions. There are no discoveries in already discovered formulas.
~ Signe Baumane
By using formula in filmmaking we are admitting that film is not art.
~ Signe Baumane
A great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make.
~ Stevie Smith
Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.
~ Stewart Brand
I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.
~ Tatyana Tolstaya
Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.
~ Walter Darby Bannard
The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius.
~ WASHINGTON ALLSTON