#originality

It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#originality #courage

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

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

#originality #nothing

Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ever write another novel. Except that each writer brings to the table, if she will let herself, something that no one else in the history of time has ever had." [Commencement Speech; Mount Holyoke College, May 23, 1999] ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#creativity #originality #point-of-view #uniqueness #writing

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#dead #disturbs #novelty #originality #repels

The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships. ↗

— Leo Burnett

#creation #effective #familiar #into #new

Originality is really important. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#originality #really

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. ↗

— Voltaire

#borrowed #imitation #judicious #most #nothing