Art Quote by Eli Siegel Download Open image “Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't.” — Eli Siegel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Charm Creativity Fairness Originality
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,… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Originality is what distinguishes art from craft. It is the yardstick of artistic greatness. — H. W. Janson Copy Share Image
Originality, then, ultimately distinguishes art from craft. We may say, therefore, that it is the yardstick of artistic greatness or importance. — H. W. Janson Copy Share Image
Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist. — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
Originality is another criterion of aesthetic value. We may formulate an originality principle, according to which highly valuable works of art provide hitherto unavailable… — James Young Copy Share Image
Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist. — Georges Seurat Copy Share Image
Originality is genius. If you respect and care for it, it will take you on the ride of your life. — Barbara Sher Copy Share Image
There is not one thing that music does which does not say something about how a person should organize himself, too. — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
“The most important thing in industry is the person who does the industry, which is the worker…. Labor is the only source of wealth.… — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
There is a quality of murky grandeur we give ourselves in having our own feelings, recoiling, separate from other things... To feel that we… — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
The purpose of photography is to create an emotion about the world through what has been carefully seen and selected. — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
To see the outside world as the same stuff as our most secret or unknown thoughts is a fine necessity... — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites, — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
True individuality is the repose arising from the relation of a self to all it has to do with. Bad individuality has in it… — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
“The self can watch itself becoming lazy, or non-watchful; this is an asset that can make both for humor and profound well-being.” — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
One of the things called forth by the Imagist movement in poetry was neatness; and when we say keenness, we mean neatness. A knife… — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
Is there in every work of art something which shows reality as one and also something which shows reality as many and diverse? -… — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves. — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
