Holbrook Jackson Quotes

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.

I never wanted the temptation to imitate or emulate something that had been done beforehand.

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.

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

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

As an aspiring artist, you should strive for originality of vision. Have something to say and a fresh way of saying it. No story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it’s not the work of the imagination.

To idealize: all writing is a campaign against cliché. Not just clichés of the pen but clichés of the mind and clichés of the heart.

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

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.

It's very difficult to be original.

I wanted each of my books to be very different from the others, each to be special and uncategorizable, and I knew I could only do that a few times before I was in danger of repeating myself.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

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.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.

As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do.

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

Generally what I produce is new. Of course, they are often variations on the same subject.

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.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

In the creative industries, there are few things more exciting than a zinger - a thought, idea, line, plot device - anything really, that just totally works in a fundamentally new and fresh way. It's like a uniquely lovely melody or a new taste idea in cooking. Something special, something new, something wonderful. They're also very rare.

I fear becoming formulaic. Some of my books are.

It's hard to find things that haven't been said before or drawn before, but I'm trying.

I hope that the things that I sing about will be an inspiration for people to be original.

If you're going to be an artist, you need to be an original.