“Originality is the art of concealing your sources.”

“Originality is the art of hiding your source”

“To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.”

“2. "HOW COULD anything originate out of its opposite? For example, truth out of error? or the Will to Truth out of the will to deception? or the generous deed out of selfishness? or the pure sun-bright vision of the wise man out of covetousness? Such genesis is impossible; whoever dreams of it is a fool, nay, worse than a fool; things of the highest value must have a different origin, an origin of THEIR own—in this transitory, seductive, illusory, paltry world, in this turmoil of delusion and cupidity, they cannot have their source. But rather in the lap of Being, in the intransitory, in the concealed God, in the 'Thing-in-itself— THERE must be their source, and nowhere else!"—”

“The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.”

“Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself.”