Quotes About Originality

Os colarinhos-brancos, os moderadores e críticos cresceram em quase toda parte à custa dos criativos e deixam-se festejar como os verdadeiros criadores.

La cultura de masas presupone el fracaso de todo intento de hacer de uno alguien interesante, lo que significa hacerse mejor que los otros

I don't do terribly well when someone has an exact idea of how one of my goals should be accomplished. That doesn't allow me any latitude to make adjustments to suit my own style. I do well when I can draw my own map.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Seguid a los menos, y no al vulgo" (Petrarca)

In the Air Tonight" is 99.9 percent sung spontaneously, the words dreamt up from out of nowhere

Yoko Ono, quite simply, did things that John Lennon did not dare.

Nova shrugged, looking as if she had personally invented shrugging and hadn't quite sorted out the fine details yet.

I also know how much of yourself you have to leave behind in order to look like everyone else.

Nothing is like anything he knows. It's like being born a second time.

You are unique, just like everybody else.

All has been done, each theme has been attack'd, And Authors' Heads are like a city sack'd!

The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation.

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.

Some in Europe take a plane, fly to Silicon Valley, visit and look and come back and say we need to do the same thing. Well you can copy others... but if you always copy others, you never get ahead.

I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does if you write your own material.

Every time we come out, there's a hunger for creative expression or creative ways to put out content that isn't duplicated from our last run. Whether it's technology, messaging, visual... we're always pushing the envelope.

Billions of photos are shot every year, and about the toughest thing a photographer can do is invent an original, deeply personal, instantly recognizable visual style. In the early nineties, Wolfgang Tillmans did just that, transforming himself into a new kind of artist-photographer of modern life.

In music, they're not endlessly rewriting Beethoven's 'Third Symphony;' in visual art, they aren't painting portraits of 16th-century royalty. Art moves forward.

I am not a visual innovator.

You cannot own a symphony or a novel in the way you can own a Damien Hirst. As a result there are far fewer fake symphonies or fake novels than there are fake works of visual art.

You know, there's so many great bands out there, visual bands, that we have to do something that makes us individual, and makes us stick out from everybody else, and something that is even bigger than just the music.

Music doesn't have to sit within the confines of pop structure, you can really make stuff that's more visual.

First of all, magicians practice a lot. It requires a lot of discipline. Second, you can't be afraid to be a leader, to go onstage, and you learn to have presence. You need to be able to visualize and connect and create. Most important, you learn to think outside the box.

Even if it's a song I know isn't gonna do that well, I'm dropping it as a piece of art, so I always want sick visuals to go with it.