Arnold Newman Quotes

My style is unique and it's my own. I do not try to copy or imitate anybody.

To the extent that independent means you're willing to attempt to put your own ideas, personality, and commitment to the material on screen, then of course I hope I'm independent until the day I die.

If you copy then it is not self-expression.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Trying to force creativity is never good.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

I don't want to get myself in trouble - and I don't think I'm super important or anything - but I think it's so funny that when you look at the business and the way that people make decisions in their lives, whether they're in art or music or they're in industry, they forget that being unique is the answer.

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun. My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what's me.

The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules.

Everything that I've ever made in my life is from my instinct.

Precepts, conventions - above all traditions - have no value in art.

Of course, it is well to go abroad and see the works of the old masters, but Americans... must strike out for themselves, and only by doing this will we create a great and distinctly American art.

I love looking completely different and that my fans won't always know what I'm going to do.

Hollywood. It lacks originality. Remake sucks.' But I had to look deeper into it from my own perspective. We are not trying to compete with the original at all and that's what allowed me to pull the trigger without any hesitancy.

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts. I paint canvasses on the floor and drove one art teacher out of his mind. But that's just the way I paint best.

Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it falls into will come later.

I made clothes because I was looking for something that didn't exist. I had to try to create my own world.

Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.

Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that's all.

Don't be a prisoner of your own style!