Georges Braque Quotes

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.

Art is great only when it bears the stamp of the individual.

I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.

Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament that is not yours and nothing that you would do would have any character.

Don't worry about trying to develop a style. Style is what you can't help doing. If you write enough, you draw enough, you'll have a style, whether you want it or not. Don't worry about whether you're "commercial". Tell your own stories, draw your own pictures. Let other people follow you.

Do not imitate one another's style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson, rather than the son of Nature.

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

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

The individual - man as a man, man as a brain, if you like - interests me more than what he makes because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.

Every movie has its uniqueness. You just do your best and go with it.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

I think a lot of singer-songwriters get compared to each other, but I'd like to think that what I'm doing is special and specific to me.

There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.

I learned early in my writing career that if I try to tailor a song for someone else, I'm usually off base. They're usually looking for something from you with your character.

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

The reason I put make-up on or wear the costume is to try and find my own style. It's like my guitar style - I'm just trying to be an original artist.

Many people say to me, particularly about my dance writing, 'It sounds just like you.' But it sounds just like me after I've made it sound like me.

Just trying to be different - when I hear something - I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds.

It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting?

Don't imitate. Write what you know about, that has to be your goal.

I wanted to come through with my own voice and, hopefully, have it affect people. I want people to know that I'm not an Elvis impersonator.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.