Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The feeling of an evolution is a constant for every artist who is pursuing the search of refinement and enlargement of his/her own means of expression.
Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.
Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.
The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
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.
Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.