#originality

Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves. ↗

— Jean Guitton

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All good things which exist are the fruits of originality. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#fruits #good #good things #originality #things

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos. ↗

— Mary Shelley

#creativity #invention #originality #writing #creativity

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#art #be original #become #been #before

I think it's a great document of John Stevens' originality. At that time he was already much more fully formed in his conception than I was. I was sort of struggling to keep up, and sometimes it's pretty obvious. ↗

— Evan Parker

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I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention. ↗

— M. Night Shyamalan

#been #films #getting #go #i

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism. ↗

— Dean Inge

#plagiarism #undetected

Daca schizofrenia este universala, atunci marele artist este cu adevarat cel care sparge zidul schizofrenic, ajungand in patria necunoscuta, acolo unde el nu mai apartine niciunei epoci, niciunui mediu, niciunei scoli. ↗

— Gilles Deleuze Felix Guattari

#creativity #genius #insanity #originality #schizophrenia

Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist. ↗

— Lukas Foss

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Is it possible to say "It was a beautiful morning at the end of November" without feeling like Snoopy? ↗

— Umberto Eco

#originality #stereotypes #writing #beauty