Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

The world is forever babbling of originality; but there never yet was an original man, in the sense intended by the world; the first man himself--who according to the Rabbins was also the first author--not being an original; the only original author being God.

I love the creative process and being able to build something out of nothing.

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

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

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

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

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.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

Always think that in any area of the arts, you get maybe ten percent of people who are creative, original... and the rest are generally following on, copying.

You start by copying other people's paintings or music or whatever. You get all of those skills before you branch out. Really creative people have a fantastic ability to copy things and then combine them in new ways. And whether we're talking about genes or memes, recombination is the real heart of creativity.

We are asking a really fundamental question whether thought can ever be creative. If thought is not the ground of creation then what is creation? Is love the only factor that is creative?

... the genius never makes anything new, but always something that is just different, and the average talents provide him the possibility within which his genius condenses into achievements.

To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

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.

Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.

It's very difficult to be original.

Copying isn’t particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else’s idea to produce something new and different IS creative work.

It's hard work to find your own voice and not to copycat anything.

Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.

You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.

People get to a certain age and success that they stop being curious. I'm still curious because I haven't really had that success. I've never done a record to catch whatever the latest sound is. It's my love of music, eclectic-ness, and the music that I heard my entire life that seeps in. That's what you're hearing.

I love originating shows and originating songs - there is nothing better than being the first one to get to do a song.

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

Originality is undetected plagiarism.