Antoni Gaudi Quotes

Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions.

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.

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.

Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.

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

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.

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

I always try to do something nobody else has done.

Originality is only variation.

I like embracing kind of normal forms but am always trying to approach them as if no one's ever done that before. As if I'm literally the first person to ever write a book.

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 deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest.

I dont want to create a monster; I want to make something which is new, exceptional, something that only I do...something that references tradition, but is still new.

Originality is going back to origins.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

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

Don't just rehash what came before. Find new things to do with it, in your unique voice.

I have to believe everything I write is brand new and I'm writing in this way about these people in a completely new situation for the very first time.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

I've got nothing very original to say myself.

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.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there.