QUOTES ABOUT ORIGINALITY Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his arent very new after all. ― Abraham Lincoln Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to. [MovieMaker Magazine #53 - Winter, January 22, 2004 ] ― Jim Jarmusch An original idea. That cant be too hard. The library must be full of them. ― Stephen Fry All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. ― T.S. Eliot, The Sacred Wood Every story has already been told. Once youve 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 Create with the heart; build with the mind. ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
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