Advancement Quote by Jennifer Young

“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

Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.

— Paul Gauguin

There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know…

— Giacomo Leopardi

All art is but imitation of nature.

— Anonymous

Art is but imitation of nature.

— Vincent Van Gogh

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

— H. W. Janson

What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely original.

— Austin Kleon

Any genuine work of art generates new work.

— Donald Barthelme

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

— Phoebe Gloeckner

Art only begins where Imitation ends.

— Oscar Wilde

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

— George Santayana

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