After some time passed in studying - and even imitating - the works of others, I would recommend the student to endeavour… — Henry Peach Robinson Copy Share Image
There is required for the composition of a great commander not only massive common sense and reasoning power, not only imagination, but… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“But once an original book has been written-and no more than one or two appear in a century-men of letters imitate it,… — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
The artist has to look at life as he did when he was a child. If he loses that faculty, he cannot… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
A. E. Maxwell wrote one of the smartest, most consistent PI series in recent memory. Big plots, great villains, and a kickass… — Tim Maleeny Copy Share Image
Once I spoke about this subject among a group of English intellectuals. One of them was a professor on Roman Law at… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
If you do something that's really original, you discover why everybody else does it the other way, usually. There's a reason cliches… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
What tender and devoted mother wouldn't be dismayed and ill with terror at her son's or daughter's stepping even one hair's breath… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
In addition to the original Executioner series I have also written a number of other works with diverse taste, even poetry. None,… — Don Pendleton Copy Share Image
In the last two months I have been very busy with my own mathematical speculations, which have cost me much time, without… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
I spent most of the 90s trying to make it as a producer - which is a difficult game to get into… — Ekoplekz Copy Share Image
The original series of Watchmen is the complete story that Alan Moore and I wanted to tell. However, I appreciate DC's reasons… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
Landscaping is the great cardinal sin of modern architecture. It's not your garden, it's not a park - it's a formless patch… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
I don't know if there will ever be an ideal way of selling an original picture. Because everything you're doing, you're inventing. — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
Keep it simple. Trust your imagination. Discover what is unique about your imagination. Don't simply read a story and copy it. I… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I deeply regret the damage my original case caused women. I want the Supreme Court to examine the evidence and have a… — Norma McCorvey Copy Share Image
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It's really hard to find stuff that is original. You pick up scripts and in four pages you know where it's going… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
The way I make art - the way a lot of people make art - is as an extension of language and… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
The original 'Edge of Darkness' was fantastic, a fabulous series. It was of its time, but this film version shows that times… — Ray Winstone Copy Share Image
The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
To be original one needs to learn the ideas of other painters in order to be different from them. — Edgar Alwin Payne Copy Share Image
