The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one - of his ideas about subject-matter surface color composition touch scale form or skill is remotely original. They're all cliche and already told.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Even in literature and art no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will nine times out of ten become original without ever having noticed it.

I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.

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.

Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone.

U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.