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#originality

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Art builds upon art, builds upon art...nothing is purely original. We're all inspired by something...or someone. It's a never-ending chain of ideas...and it's magical.


Shannon Taylor Hodnett


#ideas #inspiration #magical #never-ending #originality

Nowadays, all a man can do to be original is to cite the earliest known quote on that subject. Women, though, have no problem being original. In fact, women are always being original. I constantly have to tell my wife to stop talking so much nonsense.


Benson Bruno


#gender #humor #men-and-women #originality #funny

With cold eyes and indifferent mind the spectators regard the work. Connoissers admire the "skill" (as one admires a tightrope walker), enjoy the "quality of painting" (as one enjoys a pasty). But hungry souls go hungry away. The vulgar herd stroll through the rooms and pronounce the pictures "nice" or "splendid." Those who could speak have said nothing, those who could hear have heard nothing.


Wassily Kandinsky


#artists #creativity #imagination #inventiveness #originality

When I wrote this song I felt pretty unoriginal because everybody writes love songs, and everybody feels like their love is the most important and when their love ends and they get their heart broken, that nobody understands. And…that’s ridiculous, but so am I.


Tegan Quin


#end-of-love #heartbreak #love-song #nobody-understands #originality

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


#conception #document #formed #fully #great

Originality is undetected plagiarism.


William Ralph Inge


#plagiarism #undetected

Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.


Edward Carpenter


#examinations #go #great #great success #naturally

Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.


Antonio Gaudi


#consists #origin #originality #returning






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