#original

If you feel driven and compelled to make your work and to be fiercely original and have something unique to say, in a compelling way, then chances are the helpers will be there for you the doors will open some, the ice will crack. ↗

— David Knopfler

#compelled #compelling #crack #doors #driven

While listening, to things like western swing, for instance, I'd work something out in my head, then play it on my National; not the same song, but one that captured the feeling of the original tune. ↗

— Mark Knopfler

#feeling #head #i #instance #like

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. ↗

— Arthur Koestler

#genius #mark #new #opening #originality

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. ↗

— Arthur Koestler

#discovery #more #obvious #original #seems

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know. ↗

— Arthur Koestler

#forgetting #know #moment #originality #prerequisite

Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron. ↗

— Walter Kohn

#i #nuclear #nuclear physics #originally #particular

But the Go-Go's are a very original, kind of organic thing. ↗

— Kathy Valentine

#kind #organic #original #thing #very

Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it. ↗

— Giorgio Vasari

#beautiful #creation #divine #first #god

At one time Tribune Syndicate emptied out their storeroom. They put tables full of original cartoons down in the lobby and said take one if you want one. The comics were simply a burden to them. ↗

— Mort Walker

#cartoons #comics #down #emptied #full

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#age #architect #day #every #great