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

If contemporary artists sincerely seek to be original, unique, and new, they should begin by disregarding the notions of originality, individuality, and innovation: they are the cliches of our time.

All too often, when creative people pick out someone else's creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from the original.

I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it's no longer his... I just see what people make of it.

I feel like every artist has an opportunity to create something new and to challenge themselves to reach out to a new crowd.

So many artists try to be something that they're not.

I think sometimes an artist can really lose sight of what made them popular in the first place.

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 what kind of universal concept you're tapping into.

The works of previous artists have come from their own experiences or insights but haven't given the experience itself. They had set themselves up as a sort of interpreter to the layman... Our interest is in a form where you realize that the media are just perception.