Quotes About Originality

create a new standard takes not just making something that's a little bit different, it takes something that's really new and captures people's imagination.

What is imagination?" she asked in an 1841 essay. "It is the Combining faculty. It brings together things, facts, ideas, conceptions in new, original, endless, ever-varying combinations. . . . It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science."25

Picasso Good authors copy, great artists steal-Picassco

Nothing kills humor like a general and boring truth.

Because a lot of people think they're crazy, but in that craziness we see genius.

If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!'" People don't know what they want until you show it to them. That's why I never rely on market research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.

Jobs thought of himself as an artist, and he encouraged the design team to think of ourselves that way too," said Hertzfeld. "The goal was never to beat the competition, or to make a lot of money. It was to do the greatest thing possible, or even a little greater.

glories of being able to think different, yet until

Los artistas buenos copian y los artistas geniales roban"

He who can go to the fountain does not go to the water-jar.

What made Leonardo a genius, what set him apart from people who are merely extraordinarily smart, was creativity, the ability to apply imagination to intellect.

Picasso tenía un dicho: "Los artistas buenos copian y los artistas geniales roban"

Great art stretches the taste, it doesn't follow tastes

Don't worry about people stealing an idea," he once told a student. "If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Think Different" campaign, featuring iconic photos of some of the same people we were considering, and he found the endeavor of assessing historic influence fascinating.

Bueno, Steve, me parece que hay más de una forma de verlo. Yo diría más bien que es como si ambos tuviésemos un vecino rico llamado Xerox y, cuando yo me colé en su casa para robar el televisor, descubrí que ya te lo habías llevado tú.

Regardez ! J'ai dessiné un cercle ! s'exclama Warhol après avoir joué avec MacDraw.

Es importante fomentar la individualidad —decía—, ya que solo el individuo puede producir las nuevas ideas.

El buen arte se aparta de la moda, no la sigue

Freedom was a foundation for creativity.

In a paper he wrote in the spring of 1907, he began by exuding a joyful self-assurance about having neither the library nor the inclination to know what other theorists had written on the topic. "Other authors might have already clarified part of what I am going to say," he wrote. "I felt I could dispense with doing a literature search (which would have been very troublesome for me), especially since there is good reason to hope that others will fill this gap.

It is important to foster individuality," he said, "for only the individual can produce the new ideas.

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

When all think alike, then no one is thinking.