Nature Quote by Amy Tan

“We achieve originality of style not by avoiding the influences of others but by blending them into a combination that has not been heard…

— Scott Norton

“We can never be entirely original, as artists or as people. The genius and vision of those who came before us is too great…

— Jessica Lave

To be original one needs to learn the ideas of other painters in order to be different from them.

— Edgar Alwin Payne

It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will be merely avant-garde.…

— Michael Foley

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…

— Paterson Ewen

To write well, to have style ... is to paint. The master faculty of style is therefore the visual memory. If a writer does…

— Remy de Gourmont

The different styles I have been using in my art must not be seen as an evolution, or as steps towards an unknown ideal…

— Pablo Picasso

Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.

— Georges Seurat

I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

— Anonymous

An artist should let his style evolve naturally, spontaneously.

— Michael Jackson

No one should ever imitate the style of another because, with regard to art, he will be called a nephew and not a child…

— Leonardo da Vinci

There is a crucial distinction to be made between innovation and originality. The second, unlike the first, can never break with what preceded it:…

— Roger Scruton