Evelyne Brochu Quotes

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

We Americans love original ideas. But truly, there are already plenty of good ones out there, ours for the taking. If I were too proud to copy the ideas of others, I likely wouldn't have even a fraction of my current success.

I don't study; I create.

I've always been creating, no one had to teach me how to create, I always made things.

I think that other people covering my work is really exciting... Im really open to that kind of thing because I think interpretation is an art form.

One musician listens to another musician, and you get inspired and then you do your thing, but it's yours.

Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.

The hardest part is not to repeat yourself. I don't really believe my core obsessions are going to change, but you need to look for ways to express them that are different. The main reason for doing that is not to bore yourself, and obviously, I don't want to bore readers.

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain.

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

What drives me is to still feel creative and like I'm pushing myself as an artist.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.

I admire people who are creative.

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.