#originality

Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions. ↗

— Thomas Couture

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A poor original is better than a good imitation. ↗

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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...we have more faith in what we imitate than in what we originate. We cannot derive a sense of absolute certitude from anything which has its roots in us. The most poignant sense of insecurity comes from standing alone and we are not alone when we imitate. It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#faith

The artist's duty is to defend the exceptional: the imagination. ↗

— Marty Rubin

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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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Originality is the best form of rebellion. ↗

— Mike Sasso

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The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships. ↗

— Leo Burnett

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True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. ↗

— Edith Wharton

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

— Antonio Gaudi

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