Quotes About Originality

Art means to be oblivious to the fact that the world already exists and to create one.

Das Kunstwerk möchte man also erklären: als ein tiefinneres Geständnis, das unter dem Vorwand einer Erinnerung, einer Erfahrung oder eines Ereignisses sich ausgiebt und, losgelöst von seinem Urheber, allein bestehen kann. Diese Selbständigkeit des Kunstwerkes ist die Schönheit. Mit jedem Kunstwerke kommt ein Neues, ein Ding mehr in die Welt.

Try to express what you see and experience and love and lose as if you were the first man alive.

A work of art is good if it has grown out of necessity.

Para el verdadero creador no hay pobreza ni lugares comunes. Y aunque se encontrase encerrado en una prisión cuyos muros impidieran que el fragor del mundo alcanzase su entendimiento, ¿no podría recurrir siempre a su infancia, ese reino delicioso, esa cámara del tesoro que alberga tantos recuerdos?

Don't write love poems; avoid those forms that are too facile and ordinary: they are the hardest to work with, and it takes great, fully ripened power to create something individual where good, even glorious, traditions exist in abundance.

Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.

You are constantly invited to be what you are.

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.

Imitation is suicide.

Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.

For nonconformity the world will whip you with its displeasure.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide...

If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Go where there is no path and leave a trail.

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.

Insist upon yourself. Be original.

Break the monotony. Do something strange and extravagant!

Imitation cannot go above its model.

Ralph Waldo Emerson "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." ? Ralph Waldo Emerson