Action Quote by Bill Viola

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

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

— Julia Cameron

In the art world, originality is seen as a precious commodity and its increasingly difficult to get because the territory of art is so…

— Grayson Perry

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

Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must…

— Charles F Kettering

Art exists through the act of making. It has to somehow be made manifest to another person. It has to do with what one…

— Philip Taaffe

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.…

— Philip Treacy

Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't.

— Eli Siegel

Art making comes from the human desire to share something that is universal in one sense, but unique to your sensibility in another. I…

— Shepard Fairey

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

— H. W. Janson

From the very beginning, art meant something very important to the people who made it. It was a correspondence of the emotions to what…

— Milton Resnick

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

— H. W. Janson