Quotes About Originality

If I try to think objectively about myself and my work, I would say I want to be intuitive and distinctive.

The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.

I'm still the same person, thinking the same way, so it's possible I will invent something.

I'm really trying hard not to do anything that has been done before. So knowing everything I can about the legacy of magic challenges my team and I to invent new illusions.

I see that idea that we need a new form as something critical. I mean, we do need to invent and not be benchmarking all the time. That's important to me.

What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can't do. And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches.

I like to experiment a lot and invent things.

I broke pretty much every rule of classic game design and tried to invent new ones.

A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.

I invented every shot that has ever been played.

I don't think I'm the one that invented glamour at all.

I think writing for a world one has invented can be infinitely more interesting than writing for the world we've all inherited.

I love games like 'Flower,' for example - I thought this was amazing. It's great, it's new, it's different, and it's invented something that didn't exist before.

The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius.

An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.

Architecture is invention.

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.

We should have more invention.

I am an inventor of music.

I'm an inventor.

I would consider myself an inventor at heart, or reinventor.

I'm not a designer, I'm an inventor.

The more time we invest imitating others, the less that's available to discover and be ourselves.

When you're facing an investor or the institutions or a distributor, it's you yourself with your own ideas and your own project.