Rajneesh Quotes

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

When you attain to an egoless emptiness great creativity happens.

Creativity is a spiritual issue.

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

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

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

To create something you must be something.

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

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.

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

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.

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

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

I am attracted to anything that does not feel derivative.

If you're not observing the world around you, in some sense you're not really an artist because then that means you're just replicating other people's stuff, or, I don't even know what you're doing.

If you're always thinking about someone else's work, about the tradition you're working in, how can you possibly make anything good?

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

I believe in creative work.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

I started putting down my own pen and spending some time searching for the best songs out there possible. It doesn't matter if I wrote them or not.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

Life would be much easier if I just wrote the same book over and over again. But I'm not interested in doing that.

No creator was prompted by a desire to serve his brothers, for his brothers rejected the gift he offered and that gift destroyed the slothful routine of their lives. His truth was his only motive.