#originality

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When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.


Steve Lacy


#awful #came #collective #going #i

The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.


Conan O'Brien


#clarity #comes #conviction #disappointment #gain

We can never be entirely original, as artists or as people. The genius and vision of those who came before us is too great for us to digress from entirely. Though, as creatures that are compelled to test and surpass our own creative abilities, we must always strive for that originality in everything we do in order to move the world forward.


Jessica Lave


#artists #creativity #genius #originality #vision

When we reject our origins, we become the product of whatever soil that we find ourselves planted; the colors of our leaves change as we consume borrowed nutrients with borrowed roots and, like a tree, we grow.


Mike Norton


#heritage #originality #reject #rejection #tree

...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

Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.


Karl Lagerfeld


#absurdity #anti-absurdity #art #bi #bipolar

Anymore, no one's mind is their own.


Chuck Palahniuk


#life #modernity #originality #life

When your efforts run in the face of conventional wisdom and accepted mastery, persistence can look like madness. If you succeed in the end, this extreme originality reformulates into a new level of mastery, sometimes even genius; if you fail in the end, you remain a madman in the eyes of others, and maybe even yourself. When you are in the midst of the journey…there’s really no way of knowing which one you are.” (p.129)


Hilary Austen


#conventional-wisdom #effort #extreme-originality #genius #journey

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.


Chuck Palahniuk


#originality #nothing

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.


Charles Baudelaire


#impresses #nearly #originality #our #sensibility