Victor Vasarely Quotes

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

I think we're giving people something new that people didn't know was out there before.

To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination of old forms, the discovery of unknown worlds or the exploration of unfamiliar areas in worlds already discovered - revelations, surprises.

Writing that flirts with incoherence can just as readily flounder as writing characterized by simplicity and composure. There is no reliable formula for originality, and strategies that are distinguished as innovative in their first incarnation can quickly become stale in the hands of lesser artists.

How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.

Creativity requires novelty. Imagination is all about counterfactuals and untested possibilities that don't yet exist.

To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed a creative act.

Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.

Jean Renoir once suggested that most true creators have only one idea and spend their lives reworking it, but then very rapidly he added that most people don't have any ideas at all, so one idea is pretty amazing.

Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.

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

What gets me excited is the original principle.

I love creative people.

As a creative person you just get an idea in your head, and sometimes you just can't shake it off.

Nobody really invents anything that hasn't been done before.

Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

Everything begins with an idea.

Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.

You can't make experimental work by copying past work.

These are ideas. I could say that they just came to me, but it would be more accurate to say that I went to them. Ideas - and new connections between ideas - lead you away from commonly held perceptions of reality. Ideas lead you out here. Ideas lead you into the darkness.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.