Your work is both good and original but the part which is original is not good and the part which is good is not original!
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
A poor original is better than a good imitation.
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Don't try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out.
You were born an original work of art. Stay original always. Originals cost more than imitations.
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
Do you consider your work to be good? I consider my work good. I enjoy doing it, which helps a lot. Unfortunately, I get a lot of feedback, constantly, from people who write me about my work. But I know when I’m “giving one from column A, one from column B.” Overall, I think my work is pretty good, but I don’t think it’s great. What do you mean by “giving one from column A and one from column B”? The rule here is there are jobs you do for “god,” and there are jobs you do for money. I try to approach everything as a “god job” — lowercase g. At the beginning of a project, I ask, “What are we going to do, and how are we going to do it? How are we going to make a person fall in love?” And when we start getting questionable feedback about what we’ve done, we have to realize it’s not always possible to do the god job. That’s when I know we just have to get it done and get paid.
You were born an original work of art. Stay original.
Being original doesn’t require being first. It just means being different and better.
Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.
Originality is the art of concealing your source
Be yourself because an original is worth more than just a copy.
Stay true to yourself. An original is worth more than a copy.
If you just mimic the surface of somebody’s work without understanding where they are coming from, your work will never be anything more than a knockoff.
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