Creativity Quote by Haruki Murakami

“One day everything will be well, that is our hope,’ said Voltaire; ‘today everything is fine, that is our illusion.”

— A.C. Grayling

“Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. So said Voltaire, the realist.” “You agree with that?” “Everything has boundaries. The same holds true with thought.…

— Haruki Murakami

“Ideas are like beards. Men don’t have them until they grow up. Somebody said that, but I can’t remember who.” “Voltaire,” the younger man…

— Haruki Murakami

“I want to debunk the myth that originality requires extreme risk taking and persuade you that originals are actually far more ordinary than we…

— Adam M. Grant

Nothing is original.. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems,…

— Jim Jarmusch

We loved the Beach Boys, bands like that, but our originality came out of our lack of ability as copiers. They did mostly complicated,…

— Russell Mael

“Disappointment leads to clarity, which leads to conviction and true originality.”

— Conan O'Brien

Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.

— Thomas Mann

Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No.…

— Mark Twain

To be original is to discover the commonplace of a thousand years--to face at first the sneer that no one would have thought of…

— Gerald Stanley Lee

I pretend no originality in observing that mass education was motivated in part by the perceived need to "educate them to keep them from…

— Noam Chomsky

Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche