Quotes About Originality

That said, Snark can be effective (and funny) when done well, and without clichés. One of the problems with Snark nowadays is that it's overused, and therefore writers in this category have difficulty standing out from the crowd. Mike Nelson (of Mystery Science Theater 3000 fame) has written some very funny essays and books in this style.

Stand aside, and try not to catch fire if I shed sparks of genius.

Readers respond to authenticity, originality and excitement, even if it's not packaged in a way they expect.

Where did you get that idea for a nose? - Frizz Mizuno

It is the most foolish of all errors for young people of good intelligence to imagine that they will forfeit their originality if they acknowledge truth already acknowledged by others.

Eres, al fin y al cabo, lo que eres. Aunque te pongas una peluca con miles de rizos, aunque te pongas tacones de un codo de altura, seguirás siendo lo que eres.

Aunque te pongas una peluca con miles de rizos, aunque te pongas tacones de un codo de altura, seguirás siendo lo que eres.

Imitare l'inimitabile è un compito spaventoso

Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up.

Neuere Poeten tun viel Wasser in die Tinte. (More recent poets put a lot of water in the ink.) -- Goethe: Aus Makariens Archiv. Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre. III 18

Overly informed, one creates under too much influence, too much anxiety. Without education, one risks mistaking originality for repetition, reinventing solutions to problems many times resolved in the past ["Tradition," Quarry West , #32].

All groups and Organisation are unique

Anyone who expects to create, be it as a scientist or artist, scholar or writer, needs self-confidence, even bravado. How else can one dare to imagine understanding what no one else has understood, discovering what no one else has discovered? Where does this confidence come from? Fortunately, every young person is blessed with some of it. It is part of human character.

If you look at practically anyone - I mean, I find this more and more - the more you look at people the more you find that they've actually manufactured themselves. People whose names that you know. I meet lots of people in my ordinary life, away from writing, who seem to be authentic, who seem to know where they've come from and who they are, but anyone that I deal with in, if you like, my profession, we all seem to have made ourselves. I think artists are all self-made.

The bogus religiosity which now surrounds original works of art, and which is ultimately dependent upon their market value, has become the substitute for what paintings lost when the camera made them reproducible.

If the word revolution is used seriously and not merely as an epithet for this season's novelties, it implies a process. No revolution is simply the result of personal originality. The maximum that such originality can achieve is madness: madness is revolutionary freedom confined to the self.

been disturbed. This is why Rembrandt or Vermeer or Poussin or Chardin or Goya or Turner had no followers but only superficial imitators.

But in either case the uniqueness of the original now lies in it being the original of a reproduction. It is no longer what the image shows that strikes one as unique; its first meaning is no longer to be found in what it says, but what it is.

Authenticity was tricky; trying to duplicate another country's food in America was impossible. Wasn't it better to adapt a cuisine, as he'd begun to do in Fireside with French cuisine bourgeoise? To give it an American identity and make it something new?

To be shockingly original with your first novel, you don't have to discover a new technique: Simply write about people as they are and not as the predominantly liberal and humanist literary establishment believes that they ought to be.

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it," Albert Einstein

A fool tries to look different: a clever man looks the same and is different.

Literature does not grow wild in the woods. Every artist does something more than copy Nature; more comes out in his account than goes into the original experience.

Her playing which had been superb became merely correct. It was necessary to suggest a certain sloppiness, the playing of something that hadn't been written. Computer-made music-synthesized Blue Moon- presented same problem. Random elements introduced.