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Letter "O" » originals
«An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvellous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.»
Author: Man Ray
(Film Director, Painter, Photographer)
| Keywords:
gratuitous, marvellous, motivated, originals, reproduce, reproduces, reproducing, reproduction, reproductions
«A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.»
«An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.»
«Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all»
«History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| About:
History
| Keywords:
copies, galleries, gallery, originals
«The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Originality
| Keywords:
incline, inclines, inclining, original, originals, solitude
«How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Painting
| Keywords:
admired, likeness, originals, reproduced, reproduces, reproducing
«Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
History,
Obedience
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disobedience, has-been, history, original, originals, progress, rebellion, Rebellions, the rebellion, virtue
«Insist upon yourself. Be original.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Doing Your Best,
Originality
| Keywords:
insist, insisted, original, originals
«Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
borrowed, borrows, imitation, imitations, judicious, original, originality, originals, writers
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