Andres Segovia Quotes

It's very difficult to be original.

I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

If it feels like we're re-creating something rather than creating something, we don't do it.

I hope that the things that I sing about will be an inspiration for people to be original.

If you're going to be an artist, you need to be an original.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.

For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that.

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.

To create something you must be something.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

Fashion isn't interesting when it comes from an uninspired place.

Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

You can't make experimental work by copying past work.

I am attracted to anything that does not feel derivative.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.