Quotes About Originality

An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan.

If you just mimic the surface of somebody's work without understanding where they are coming from, your work will never be anything more than a knockoff.

The value of an artist is more because of his originality than his skill.

We must not imitate that which we seek to create.

Gathering your own reference materials, sketches and using your own imagination is going to help you grow as an artist far more than stealing someone else's work.

You can't force creatives into a box. If you try, they'll no longer be creative. And no one will want your box.

As a general rule, in the world of magic, the most successful magician is the one who has enough patience to keep the secrets of his original magic effects.

Give royal treatment to your original magic effects, because one of the effects might make you the king of magic.

For any creative thought to be contagious, it must first be worthy of a sneeze.

We are all born artists. The nature generally doesn't discriminate among newborns with respect to art. Yet most of us try very hard as we grow, without knowing, to stop being artists.

Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract.

When a mad man found some certain way to express his insanity in original way, he would get promoted to be called an Artist.... Wait, are you talking about me?

none of my art is based on how others think i should have done it.

There are no greater or lesser arts, only greater or lesser artists.

There are no rules. That is how art is born.

A work of art cannot be satisfied with being a representation it should be a presentation.

Artists by definition innocent don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.

Conception my boy fundamental brainwork is what makes the difference in all art.

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which throughout his lifetime he draws what he is and what he says and when the source dries up the work withers and crumbles.

I wouldn't want to do an average fashion line. I'd want it to be an amazing piece of art.

Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.

I just really wanted to be myself. I wanted to be sassy, the attitude, all these things that I am.

I've never modeled myself on anybody, but there are a lot of people whose work I really admire and attitudes I certainly subscribe to.

I've never tried to emulate anyone. I've never idolized people, I prefer instead to get off on attitudes.