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• The original insight is most likely to come when elements stored in different compartments of the mind drift into the open, jostle one another, and now and then form new combinations.

  Eric Hoffer

  Mind, Different, Elements

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

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• I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them. It's something that's increasingly difficult to find that spark of originality that makes if different than the ones that come before.

  Julia Roberts

  Romantic Love, Different, Watches

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• I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.

  Amy Tan

  Clever, Writing, Voice

  "Author of The Joy Luck Club". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

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• I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.

  Burt Lancaster

  Trying, Way, New Ways

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• To be the authentic is to be detached and stand aside from oneself and the work so that the working process can take on an untrammeled life of its own. Labored self-involvement, contrivance, ulterior motives, even the extraordinary facility that one may have, must be let go.

  Joshua L. Goldberg

  Letting Go, Self, May

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• The artist has only to remain true to his dream and it will possess his work in such a manner that it will resemble the work of no other man.

  Albert Pinkham Ryder

  Dream, Artist, Men

  Albert Pinkham Ryder (1961). “Albert Pinkham Ryder: Exhibition April 8-May 12, 1961”

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• But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Long, Independence, Religion

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Henryk Sienkiewicz (Illustrated)”, p.6150, Delphi Classics

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• It takes a courageous fool to say things that have not been said and to do things that have not been done.

  Criss Jami

  Done, Fool, Courageous

  Criss Jami (2012). “Venus in Arms”, p.15, Criss Jami

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• Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked out. The cause of production of real art is the artist's inner need to express a feeling that has accumulated...The cause of counterfeit art, as of prostitution, is gain. The consequence of true art is the introduction of a new feeling into the intercourse of life... The consequences of counterfeit art are the perversion of man, pleasure which never satisfies, and the weakening of man's spiritual strength.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Spiritual, Art, Husband

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• Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.

  Samuel Johnson

  Lying, Greatness, Watches

  Samuel Johnson (1804). “The beauties of Samuel Johnson: maxims and observations. To which are now added, biographical anecdotes of the doctor, his life [&c.].”, p.103

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• I'll develop my own image. I'm an original man. A one and only. I just need some help.

  Sam Shepard

  Men, Needs, Helping

  Sam Shepard (1997). “Plays”

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• The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest.

  Paul Cezanne

  Giving, Vision, Interest

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• A certain strangeness, something of the blossoming of the aloe, is indeed an element in all true works of art: that they shall excite or surprise us is indispensable.

  Walter Pater

  Art, Elements, Blossoming

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

  Coco Chanel

  Memories, Original Thought, Brilliant

  "Readers recommend: songs that sample, recycle and reinvent" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2014.

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• True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. That new, that personal, vision is attained only by looking long enough at the object represented to make it the writer's own; and the mind which would bring this secret gem to fruition must be able to nourish it with an accumulated wealth of knowledge and experience.

  Edith Wharton

  Wealth Of Knowledge, Long, Mind

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• Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Artist, Way, Needs

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• You were born God's original. Try not to become someone's copy.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Trying, Born, Copies

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• Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Inspiration, Stealing Things, Imagination

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• Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Different, Traps

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• Select only things to steal that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent

  Jim Jarmusch

  Soul, Bodies Of Water, Film Music

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• If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.

  Ken Robinson

  Failure, Creativity, Prepared

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• Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Home, Trying, Places To Go

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• The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Believe, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”, p.116

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• Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.

  James Russell Lowell

  Genius, Human Nature, Humans

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.63

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• I really do not aim at any originality.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Aim

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