Quotes About Originality

There's no 'Safety First' in Art.

I told him. And as I walked on I was lonely no longer. I was a guide, a pathfinder, an original settler. He had casually conferred on me the freedom of the neighborhood.

For the intimate revelations of young men or at least the terms in which they express them are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.

Begin with an individual, and before you know it you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find you have created - nothing.

Ida had always been different. At school, when all the kids used to play church, and one would be the preacher, another the preacher's wife, a deacon, and the choir leader, and some would be the parishioners who had come to the church, Ida said she wanted to be God, because she was the only one who knew how to do it. Of

There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn't exist.

Why try to be like others if you're condemned to being yourself? Why laugh if, when you laugh, even your genuine happiness is false, since it is born of forgetting who you are? Why cry if you feel it's of no use, and if you cry not because tears console you but because it grieves you that they don't?

Better and happier those who, recognizing that everything is fictitious, write the novel before someone writes it for them and, like Machiavelli, don courtly garments to write in secret.

Fortunately for humanity, each man is only himself and only the genius is given the ability to be others as well.

But thank God there's imperfection in the World, Since imperfection is a thing, And the existence of mistaken People is original, And the existence of sick People makes the world interesting. If there were no imperfection, there would be one less thing, And there should be many Things, So that we will have a lot to see and hear For as long as Our eys and ears remain open...

La gran dificultad que presenta para mi orgullo el contemplar paisajes es la circunstancia dolorosa de que seguro que ya alguien los ha contemplado con la misma intención.

Most men spontaneously live a fictitious, alien life. Most people are other people, said Oscar Wilde, and he was quite right.

The truly superior (and the happiest) men are those who, perceiving that everything is a fiction, make up their own novel before someone else does it for them and, like Machiavelli, don courtly robes in order to write in secret.

Todo cuanto hacemos, en el arte o en la vida, es la copia imperfecta de lo que hemos pensado hacer.

Everything we do, in art or in life, is the imperfect copy of what we thought of doing.

Everything we do, in art and life, is the imperfect copy of what we intended.

With this thoroughly established, complete and autonomous plays can unfold in us line by line. We may no longer have the energy to write them, but that won't be necessary. We'll be able to create secondhand; we can imagine one poet writing in us in one way, while another poet will write in a different way. I, having refined this skill to a considerable degree, can write in countlessly different ways, all of them original.

Para unos, ser bueno significará ser resignado y paciente, pero otros llamarán bueno a la persona emprendedora, original, que no se acobarda a la hora de decir lo que piensa aunque pueda molestar a alguien.

So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.

The straightforward manner is seldom equal to the complications of the good subject. There may never be anything new to say, but there is always a new way to say it, and since, in art, the way of saying a thing becomes a part of what is said, every work of art is unique and requires fresh attention.

There may never be anything new to say, but there is always a new way to say it.

I am not a warthog from hell.

I hope we go down in history for being something more than just another famous act that got ripped off.

It's so awesome to be a part of something that is successful not because there's a famous person in it or because it's a revival of something, but because it's so fresh and original.