Adding Quote by Antony Beevor

Restoration is a skilled profession. You might even call it an art in its own right, except that it is frowned on to be…

— Anonymous

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

— H. W. Janson

There are different kinds of concentration required to make a painting, different kinds of being present.

— Joe Bradley

“How does a copy become more than a copy? Is art the creation of something new and original, or simply the continuous enlargement, or…

— Madeleine Thien

A work of art is a work of order, and if the artist is to put the stamp of his own mind on his…

— Henry Peach Robinson

In large studio paintings... composition, or arrangement, may be better studied, and nearer perfection, washes may be more suavely graded...

— Walter J. Phillips

When a painter is working he is aware of the means which are available to him - these include his materials, the style he…

— John Berger

You take a painting, you have a white, virginal piece of canvas that is the world of purity, and then you put your imagery…

— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

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

— Edgar Alwin Payne

Originality, then, ultimately distinguishes art from craft. We may say, therefore, that it is the yardstick of artistic greatness or importance.

— H. W. Janson

Each work of art is a collection of signs invented during the picture's execution to suit the needs of their position. Taken out of…

— Henri Matisse

Just as a chemist "isolates" a substance from contaminations that distort his view of its nature and effects, so the work of art purifies…

— Rudolf Arnheim