Antoni Gaudi Quotes

Originality is a return to the origin.

I've got nothing very original to say myself.

I'm not original, but I strive toward it as much as possible. I tried really hard on Weekend Update to do something that I considered original, which was, I tried to cut all cleverness out of the joke.

I never wanted the temptation to imitate or emulate something that had been done beforehand.

It is easy to say something new, if all senses one will eschew. But hardly ever is found, that the new is also sound.

What is originality? To see something that is as yet without a name, that is as yet impossible to designate, even though it staresus in the face. The way it usually is with people, it is a thing's name that makes it perceptible to them in the first place.--For the most part, the original ones have also been the name-givers.

You have to be doing something very different from what everybody else is doing, hopefully different from what's ever been done before - something that nobody's thought of yet.

Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass through him. And out of his experience comes the original creation.

I never feel I repeat myself. I really go out of my way to amuse myself. I would be bored stiff. If I feel the déjavu when I'm doing something, I stop and rethink and rework it.

Originality is really important.

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

The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn't thought of before and that aren't talked about in the news all the time.

I always make sure that every film of mine has some element of freshness to it.

There is a crucial distinction to be made between innovation and originality. The second, unlike the first, can never break with what preceded it: to be original, an artist must also belong to the tradition from which he departs. To put it another way, he must violate the expectations of his audience, but he must also, in countless ways, uphold and endorse them.

It's hard to invent a new thing, and it's just as hard to invent another new thing.

Give your mind as long as possible to come up with something original.

Originality is only variation.

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

I never thought innovation as such was very important. Not when you have to think about it... If you're going to come up with a new direction or a really new way to do something, you'll do it by just playing your stuff and letting it ride. The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.

Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.

I try to never repeat a character. I always try to find something new and fresh and interesting that inspires me.

Story is about originality, not duplication

Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality.

You mustn't expect me to repeat myself. My past doesn't interest me. I would rather copy others than copy myself. In that way I should at least be giving them something new. I love discovering things.

The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.