Quotes About Originality

The mind that relies on cliché does not really know what it is saying.

The effect of this was to make me abjure hackneyed expressions from an early age, so I suppose I benefited from my mother's phrasal insouciance in the long run, although it's possible that my automatic eschewal of clichés occasionally drove me from the Scylla of ridicule into the turbid Charybdisian eddies of sesquipedalian obfuscation...though I trust not.

The poet John Ciardi pointed out, "Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at women and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

We were clever enough to turn a laundry list into poetry.

The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better than a spoon

Never trust originality.

El genio es el que pone en juego uno de esos componentes de manera vertiginosa, alimentándolo con los demás.

the best ideas may not come from the major authors.

Opera aperta (The open work), published in 1962, the first of Eco's books on a modern topic and the work with which he made his name in Italy.

Kitaplardaki tekboynuzlu t?pk? bir bask? gibidir. E?er bask? varsa, bask?s? yap?lan bir ?eyin var olmu? olmas? gerekir.

They were told about the house, which had been designed by the man whom advanced and art-loving Americans considered the greatest architect of the time; the roof was so built that water didn't always run off it, and the chimneys smoked, and the kitchen was inconveniently placed—but it was one of the most original and beautiful of designs, and everybody wanted to come and see it.

be yourself." Great-Great-Uncle Eli

Ciò che è vivo non ha copie. Due persone, due arbusti di rosa canina, non possono essere uguali, è impensabile... E dove la violenza cerca di cancellare varietà e differenze, la vita si spegne.

A vida morre onde a violência tenta apagar a sua originalidade, as suas peculiaridades.

Os diré qué entiendo por poema creado. Es un poema en el que cada parte constitutiva, y todo el conjunto, muestran un hecho nuevo, independiente del mundo externo, desligado de cualquiera otra realidad que no sea la propia, pues toma su puesto en el mundo como un fenómeno singular, aparte y distinto de los demás fenómenos.

Un poeta debe decir aquellas cosas que nunca se dirían sin él.

Yo soy el único poeta de este siglo.

He was not his father, and this was not his work; but he was the master, and this was his masterpiece.

There are seven plots. Shakespeare wrote them better than anyone. If that scares you, leave now." If

At its core, Hip Hop is not just an art form; it is the pursuit of one's authentic being through the Arts.

That's why Occupy was so cool at first," Waverly says, "because it was actually different from what'd been done before. But most protests seem like cover versions of old songs. Like we're all in a sixties tribute band.

I use bits and pieces of others personalities to form my own.

I would rather be hated for what I am, then loved for what I am not.

To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.