Quotes About Originality

La invención, no la copia de la realidad, es la verdad del arte.

Louisa May Alcott] made no alterations and no copies, for the material upon which she lavished the least time seemed the most successful.

How does a copy become more than a copy? Is art the creation of something new and original, or simply the continuous enlargement, or the distillation, of an observation that came before

How does a copy become more than a copy? Is art the creation of something new and original, or simply the continuous enlargement, or the distillation, of an observation that came before? What answer would my father give?

There is no one like you" I said, at last. He regarded me a moment, in silence. "So?

What is distinctive and engaging about Jesus is not the novel things he says but the way he says things. He is creative not so much because he says things that are completely new but because he speaks with such authority.

There are no formulas with God. Period. So there are no formulas for the man who follows him. God is a Person, not a doctrine. He operates not like a system—not even a theological system—but with all the originality of a truly free and alive person.

Nunca saque un principio de su experiencia; deje que Dios sea tan original con otras personas como es con usted».

It's rather like your voice. You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts. It's what distinguishes all great art from the other kind.

He said, it's rather like your voice. You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts. It's what distinguishes all great art from the other kind.

I hate the man who builds his name; On ruins of another's fame

You're not like anyone else, Billy - that's what's the matter with you, Donna said.

As in many things, my mother could be extremely accomplished without being in the least original or even inventive.

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Jonathan Swift— "THOUGHTS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, MORAL AND DIVERTING

To proclaim the need for new ideas has served, in some measure, as a substitute for them.

Creativity is a gift. It doesn't come through if the air is cluttered.

People think you want them to do something or say something special...you don't. You just want them to be themselves, so you can be yourself.

An artist, when sketching, looks at a landscape and then a sketch pad, repeating the process until an image appears, depicting, but not duplicating, what's there. Landscape and sketch pad guide the artist's hand, but no two artists will sketch the scene in just the same way.

Only the fakes survive.

With all the things that you could be, you never could learn how to be me.

Now this is the first rule of fight club: There is nothing a blue collar Nobody in Oregon with a public school education can imagine that a million-billion people haven't already done.

U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

I tend to go against the grain because when I start to see that everybody's trying to shock, I try not to. I just do stuff that's subtler, more emotional, and I think that shocks people.

When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.