Art Quote by Salman Rushdie

“When art is not only a matter of inspiring colors and techniques but a permanent questioning of life.”

— Latino Professional Network

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

— Julia Cameron

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

“We can never be entirely original, as artists or as people. The genius and vision of those who came before us is too great…

— Jessica Lave

Cerebration is the enemy of originality in art.

— Martin Ritt

The personality of the artist, at first a cry or a cadence or a mood and then a fluid, and lambent narrative, finally refines…

— James Joyce

“I want to debunk the myth that originality requires extreme risk taking and persuade you that originals are actually far more ordinary than we…

— Adam M. Grant

“Originality' is the sickness of modernity that wishes to see itself as something new, always new, in order continually to witness its own birth.…

— Carlos Fuentes

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

— Lukas Foss

Behind the aesthetic form lies the repressed harmony of sensuousness and reason

— Herbert Marcuse

And so artistic creation is the metamorphosis of the external physical aspects of a thing into a self-sustaining spiritual reality .

— Hans Hofmann

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