Quotes About Originality In Art

#1. Cerebration is the enemy of originality in art.

Martin Ritt

#2. I don't believe in originality in art. I think we exist on this earth to inspire each other, through our actions, through our deeds, and through who we are. We're always borrowing.

Bill Viola

#3. Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't.

Eli Siegel

#4. The human spirit's unquenchable drive for originality and compulsion for creating art is the compelling force of our humanity.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#5. An educated person's ideas of Art are drwan naturally from what Art has been, whereas the new work of art is beautiful by being what Art has never been; and to measure it by the standard of the past is to measure it by a standard on the rejection of which its real perfection depends.

Oscar Wilde

#6. For me, the arts are just an endless source of intelligence, brilliance, imagination, and originality.

Gail Levin

#7. Originality is the art of concealing your source.

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#8. Originality is what distinguishes art from craft. It is the yardstick of artistic greatness.

H. W. Janson

#9. The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in the second-rate art of imitation.

Stephen Neill

#10. There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

Marie Antoinette

#11. Artistry, perhaps, is at its core being able to control change in interesting ways.

Jeff Ryan

#12. Forge your iron; shape it by force,
not into a flower you already know
but into what can also be a flower
if you think it is and it is so.

Joao Cabral De Melo Neto

#13. Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

C.S. Lewis

#14. Art builds upon art, builds upon art ... nothing is purely original. We're all inspired by something ... or someone. It's a never-ending chain of ideas ... and it's magical.

Shannon Taylor Hodnett

#15. Creativity is the art of concealing your sources.

Coco Chanel

#16. From an art perspective, I don't know how you get better than 'Beetlejuice.' In terms of originality and a look, it's 100% unique.

Michael Keaton

#17. A lot of great art comes from the Afro-American male experience. Black men are geniuses, and many times their desperation, their position as being pariahs, leads them to great originality.

Ishmael Reed

#18. I don't believe too much in originality ... you learn art from other art and then looking into somebody's face or landscape is the point of departure to do your work of art.

Paterson Ewen

#19. Absurdity and anti - absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

Karl Lagerfeld

#20. A poor original is better than a good imitation.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#21. I believe in originality, primarily. However, it's important to know what there has been before to aim in that direction. Art history informs us. It informs our mind. I like to look at books, exhibitions, paintings, as a computer, subconsciously taking on information.

Philip Treacy

#22. Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label 'artist' is to be used lightly.

Criss Jami

#23. Through reproductive technology, postmodernist art dispenses with the aura. The fiction of the creating subject gives way to a frank confiscation, quotation, excerptation, accumulation, and repetition of already existing images. Notions of originality, authenticity, and presence ... are undermined.

Douglas Crimp

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

Julia Cameron

#25. Be yourself. An original is worth more than a copy.

Suzy Kassem

#26. If it aint broke, break it. Then build something better.

Jonathan Culver

#27. Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.

Robert Henri

#28. If an artist wants to be original, he should not look to art for inspiration, for art seeks its model in life, not art - and only life is rich enough to simulate originality.

Anthony Marais

#29. To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#30. The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

Arthur Koestler

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

Amit Kalantri

#32. Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll only find yourself lost and dying of thirst.

Caitlin R. Kiernan

#33. Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity

Vladimir Nabokov

#34. The artist's duty is to defend the exceptional: the imagination.

Marty Rubin

#35. Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Laurence J. Peter