Quotes About Originality

Romantic love has been diluted into paperback form and has sold thousands and millions of copies. Somewhere it is still in the original, written on tablets of stone.

You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear? 'I love you' is always a quotation. You did not say it first and neither did I, yet when you say it and when I say it we speak like savages who have found three words and worship them.

The saggy armchair of clichés.

Por qué lo menos original que podemos decirnos uno a otro sigue siendo lo que más anhelamos oír?

Sanat s?rad???d?r; al???lagelmiÅŸ yöntemle onu ehlileÅŸtirerek ya da yemleyerek kal?plara sokmaya çal??mak nafiledir. Kim hayvanat bahçesine gidip de aslan? biraz olsun anlam?? ki?

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

Mientras el gobierno y las leyes subvienen a la seguridad y al bienestar de los hombres sociales, las letras y las artes, menos déspotas y quizá más poderosas, extienden guirnaldas de flores sobre las cadenas de hierro que los agobian, ahogan en ellos el sentimiento de la libertad original para la cual parecían haber nacido, los hacen amar su esclavitud y los transforman en lo que se ha dado en llamar pueblos civilizados. La necesidad

En vérité, je ne songeais guère à faire ni comme les autres ni autrement qu'eux. Je désirais sincèrement de faire ce qui était bien.

If you wanna talk about influence, man, then you've got to realize that influence is not influence. It's simply someone's idea going through my new mind.

If you seek authenticity for authenticity's sake you are no longer authentic.

In the critics' vocabulary, the work 'precursor' is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemics or rivalry.

Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

I would not change [my past work] anymore than I would airbrush a photo of myself.

Nature is the best and really the only real vocabulary that an artist can legitimately work with.

If everything that you do is for the market, it won't work.

People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.

With every movie I do and every day I go to work, my goal is not just to reach for difference, but also figure out how to look at world and characters in a different way.

I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make - and of course, I do influence them, but they keep simplifying, and minimalism doesn't quite work

Many years ago, Clement Greenberg said, 'All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.' This should be updated now to 'All profoundly ugly work looks original at first.

Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.

If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different to you and me.

I feel like, as a filmmaker, I'm at my strongest when I write the script and when it comes from me, out of whole cloth. My best work has always been self-generated.

I avoid falling into a trap of doing work solely to impress people. I always ask myself, "What don't I ever see?"