"Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions"
- Thomas Couture
About this Quote
This quote by Thomas Couture speaks with the idea that creativity is not necessarily connected to technical skill. Knowing how to paint and utilize colors correctly is necessary, but it does not ensure originality. Rather, creativity comes from the ability to express one's own impressions in a significant method. This could mean communicating a feeling or emotion, or simply recording a moment in time. It is insufficient to simply replicate what one sees, however to be able to interpret it in a special way. Creativity has to do with having the ability to take what one sees and make it their own. It is about having the ability to reveal one's own thoughts and sensations in a creative way. Eventually, it has to do with being able to develop something that is genuinely unique and meaningful.
This quote is written / told by Thomas Couture between December 21, 1815 and March 30, 1879. He/she was a famous Artist from France.
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