Accounts Quote by Henry David Thoreau

We are the ORIGIN of our art, its homeland. Viewed this way, ORIGINALITY is the process of remaining true to ourselves.

— Julia Cameron

“Every language has is a beauty, it has it's own uniqueness, it's own fascinating sounds that birth the originality of human being.”

— Euginia Herlihy

If I have any claim to originality, I do it by investing my own personality into it, so it's coming from a slightly more…

— James Hunter

Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others.

— Eric Hoffer

“I was trying to discover examples of a living restoration, trying to go beyond discussions about correct historic colors, materials, and techniques. I looked…

— Howard Mansfield

We have this enormous connection to the living world that is reflected in our language.

— Jean Berko Gleason

Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They must, that is,…

— Thomas Kuhn

My works are an imitation of my own past and present.

— Barbara Hepworth

“All cultures teem with creativity, on display both via inconceivable monuments and in the flawless blend of two spices. I want to see the…

— Tsh Oxenreider

We live in a world of copies and we're fascinated when we encounter the originals (in a museum, for instance).

— Susan Sontag

The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities that had clear survival value.

— Denis Dutton

The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition and thought…

— Havelock Ellis