The nature of the lost-wax process is that there is no original in the popular sense. — Robert Graham Copy Share Image
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain one once we grow up. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same. — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
A wood might be in the river for years that doesn't make it a crocodile — Toluwani Adeleke Copy Share Image
An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I'll develop my own image. I'm an original man. A one and only. I just need some help. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
“No such thing as original thought. We are shadows of stars that burned before our time.” — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
I feel like the internet also affects originality a lot, because music is so easily shared nowadays, it seems like artists have… — Mr. Carmack Copy Share Image
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
When you're making anime, if you get all of your inspiration from anime... it's going to lack originality and creativity, so I… — Shinichiro Watanabe Copy Share Image
“In writing 'here', I freely admit that many times I read it 'there' and placed it 'here'. But the ultimate joy comes… — Garry Fitchett Copy Share Image
We loved the Beach Boys, bands like that, but our originality came out of our lack of ability as copiers. They did… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
The punk era, at its best, celebrated questioning the norm and the promotion of originality. Both concepts have always resonated with me. — Prabal Gurung Copy Share Image
It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
An Edward Povey hangs in my living room and every day I am reminded of his originality, his beauty, and the eternal… — Kate Mulgrew Copy Share Image
Perhaps that is nearly the perfection of good writing which is original, but whose truth alone prevents the reader from suspecting that… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. The instruction we find in books is like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originality, a taste for research, and a desire… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
“Plenty of masterpieces are just one cliché after another, Mozart for example, but that's quite natural, because if you think about it,… — Thomas Ades Copy Share Image
The invention of IQ did a great disservice to creativity in education. ... Individuality, personality, originality, are too precious to be meddled… — Joel Henry Hildebrand Copy Share Image
A designer…has the true responsibility to give his audiences not what they think they want, for this is almost invariably the usual,… — Lester Beall Copy Share Image
Originality doesn't consist of saying it first, originality consists of saying it in a way that is specifically tailored to the moment… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I feel like at this point in the world of just creating anything, you're not going to be able to create anything… — Giveon Copy Share Image
“The most important trait of a writer is an authentic voice. Writers have to have faith in their own voice, and their… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Up until relatively recently, creating original characters from scratch wasn't a major part of an author's job description. When Virgil wrote The… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Love remains a relation with the Other that turns into need, transcendent exteriority of the other, of the beloved. But love goes… — Emmanuel Levinas Copy Share Image
“The bad news is, everyone looks great on paper and in interviews, but everyone also looks exactly the same. People have figured… — Dale Carnegie Training Copy Share Image
High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“It takes gumption to wake up every day to face the fickle world and cleave to your morals and values Not flinch… — Emmanuella Raphaelle Copy Share Image
“Walking along the tables, my spirits sank even lower. Almost all the better fiddles, the ones made by professionals, were antiqued copies.… — James N McKean Copy Share Image
“Our lack of originality is something we usefully forget as we hunch over our—to us—ever-fascinating lives. My friend M., leaving his wife… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
