Randall Jarrell Quotes

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

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.

You can't make experimental work by copying past work.

To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination of old forms, the discovery of unknown worlds or the exploration of unfamiliar areas in worlds already discovered - revelations, surprises.

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 guess I think about doing stuff that nobody else has done.

If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.

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

Originality, of course, is what occurs when something new arises out of what's already been done.

People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end.

As long as there's something original going on, that's all that matters.

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

Being creative means first of all doing something unusual... On the other hand, however unusual it may be, the idea also has to be reasonable for people to take it seriously.

Different is better when it is more effective or more fun.

Originality consists of returning to the origin. Thus, originality means returning, through one's resources, to the simplicity of the early solutions.

Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

What gets me excited is the original principle.

Every film has to be the next something else; originality isn't celebrated because you can't market it.

Originality is really important.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Make something new, and define territory that's never been. I fall in love with shows because I've never see that before. I fall in love with new vocabularies.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.