Art Quote by Giacomo Leopardi

Without moving beyond a mere copy, there is no artistry, no originality or artistic advancement; only mechanics.

— Jennifer Young

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The only thing that we can really make is our work, and deliberate work of the mind, imagination and hand, done, as Nietzsche said,…

— Edmund Wilson

Anybody that creates anything is just creating new compositions of things that have existed before. We're all creating something, we're all creating our own…

— Rick Owens

I feel like at this point in the world of just creating anything, you're not going to be able to create anything new. I…

— Giveon

“Many people fail to achieve originality because they generate a few ideas and then obsess about refining them to perfection.”

— Adam M. Grant

Arts and sciences in one and the same century have arrived at great perfection; and no wonder, since every age has a kind of…

— John Dryden

In order to produce something new, you have to return to the original source, to the childhood of mankind.

— Paul Gauguin

If you've been in the art world for more than eight years, you realize another generation is making the exact same work as the…

— Christopher Bollen

“The culture of making is more about a mindset than a lifestyle. Makers have a curiosity for the built world around them. Understanding where…

— Rachelle Doorley

You have to be ahead of your game, and in industry that is a different condition than in art. If you make things in…

— Ross Lovegrove

We are chained hand and foot by protocol, enslaved to a static, empty world where men and women can’t read, where the scientific advances…

— Catherine Fisher