Quotes About Originality

I was obsessed with the idea that no two sounds on 'Oxygene' should ever be exactly the same. I wanted a heartbeat feel, something human.

What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.

I only have one obsession - not to be boring.

Most innovative things are not obvious to other people at the time. You have to believe in yourself. If you've got a good idea, follow it even though others tell you it's not.

Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.

I'm allergic to doing the obvious thing.

That's the thing about great artists: They find the thing that's most obvious to themselves, what's most conscious and natural, and they put it out there and the audience comes.

I just think, in every acting choice that you make, you've got to go for the least obvious choice.

The great ideas start flowing when you stop thinking about the obvious way of doing it.

I think it's been obvious from the beginning that my projects are not going to be something that people already have in mind. You can't be thinking about such things when you create something.

It's like when you get sick of your own cooking: I occasionally wish I could write something that didn't come out sounding like me. All writers must experience that.

Perhaps the measure of the best art is that it does not excite envy.

A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect.

am nature's greatest miracle. Since the beginning of time never has there been another with my mind, my heart, my eyes, my ears, my hands, my hair, my mouth. None that came before, none that live today, and none that come tomorrow can walk and talk and move and think exactly like me.

Ser moderno é tratar de sabotar os lugares-comuns de seu tempo. Programa complexo: o nosso tende a não passar de uma proliferação de lugares comuns. O espírito de época, se pudermos chamar assim, é uma montagem sem pé nem cabeça de lugares-comuns.

Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.

no creo que podamos vivir sin imitar a otros, sin querer ser otros.

los que dicen que las personas son creadas de dos en dos se equivocan. Nadie se parece a nadie.

I like all the disgusting things that are fine just being themselves. What's wrong with a little honest vulgarity?

In the realm of book arts, whenever a masterpiece is made, whenever a splendid picture makes my eyes water out of joy and causes a chill to run down my spine, I can be certain of the following: Two styles never brought together have come together to create something new and wondrous.

Isolation is the optimum environment for creativity.

No army had ever fragmented itself like that before, but ender was not planning to do anything that had been done before, either.

Isolation is—the optimum environment for creativity. It

The novelty and freshness you'll bring to the field won't come from the new ideas you think up. Truly new ideas are rare, and usually turn out to be variations on old themes anyway. No, your freshness will come from the way you think, from the person you are; it will inevitably show up in your writing, provided you don't mask it with heavy-handed formulas or clichés.