Quotes About Originality

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.

We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.

Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature.

Maybe what I do isn't going to be acknowledged by people, but that's me. It's my nature to do things that are weirder and less understood and that was a path I needed to take

Nature is my main source of inspiration - I will never stop taking hints from what I call 'the greatest artist'

You know I am not born to tread in the beaten track the peculiar bent of my nature pushes me on.

The nature of having ideas and creativity is incredibly inspiring.

True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture.

If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all?

Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!

Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.

Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

The things that I make are that which a person will make. They're not meant to mimic nature. They are nothing but the result of a hand of a person.

Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.

Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament that is not yours and nothing that you would do would have any character.

Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.

Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying the second... You see the sequence.

The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals; She never produces classes.

We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

I love nature, but I try to change it a little bit, not copy it.