Elizabeth Berg Quotes

Isn't art about breaking rules, about challenging existing systems, isn't it about discovering meaning in things or situations before others see anything in them??

No idea is original, there's nothing new under the sun, it's never what you do, but how it's done

The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche.

Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision.

I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.

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

If they haven't heard it before it's original.

Video games are engineered now, but the step I am trying to take, no one can engineer.

I'm always trying to find something unique or a project that I can do something unique in.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

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

The essence of creativity is to look beyond where you can actually see. I don't want to dwell in same place too long.

If you come in with all of the answers, you might create something that's very beautiful and powerful, but I think it will also seem sterile if you don't leave room for people to have their own reactions to it.

If you look at my career, you'll find that the same record doesn't show up more than once. I try to challenge myself with every project.

There's always a way to say something that could seem really commonplace and make it special again.

I like to make something different and interesting.

This was my motto: 'Don't come up with routine stuff.'

I like to change and switch it up. I don't want to sound like anybody else or sound the same. I always have to reinvent myself.

I don't think I've ever made a claim to startling originality.

Creativity, which is the expression of our originality, helps us stay mindful that what we bring to the world is completely original and cannot be compared.

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.

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

Originality houses many rooms, and the views from the windows are all different.

Story is about originality, not duplication