Aim Quote by Bill Watterson

Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it's in the process of imitating the voice…

— Alan Bennett

An artist's work is a synthesis of much more than the work of other creators.

— Phoebe Gloeckner

Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.

— Lukas Foss

Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Emulation and imitation can legitimately influence one's development, but ultimately the artist must find his own path - and be true to himself.

— Ken Danby

[Great artists] do not copy what they see, but what they desire.

— Theophile Gautier

There's a cultural conviction that any 'artist' must have personal suffering to back up their work, otherwise there's something undeserved and therefore inauthentic about…

— Jenny Diski

If you're going to be an artist, you need to be an original.

— Kinky Friedman

I've learned that you can do something great, but you have to continue reinventing yourself as an artist. So by the time someone else…

— Romeo Santos

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

— Georges Seurat

The beauty of ideas is that they are like waves in the ocean and they connect with things that came before them, and I…

— Jim Jarmusch

You know, for a long time I have been of the opinion that artists don't necessarily know what they're doing. You don't necessarily know…

— Leonard Nimoy