We can never be entirely
“We can never be entirely original, as artists or as people. The genius and vision of those who came before us is too great for us to digress from entirely. Though, as creatures that are compelled to test and surpass our own creative abilities, we must always strive for that originality in everything we do in order to move the world forward.”
– Jessica Lave
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- A parents wishes for their children shouldn’t be to be as good as them but to surpass their own abilities and hopefully lead to a better world. – Stanley Victor Paskavich
- Cockroaches really put my “all creatures great and small” creed to the test. – Astrid Alauda
- You have so many Creative Powers, Lord; Your Bountiful Blessings are so Great. So many of Your beings and creatures praise You day and night. You have so many forms and colors, so many classes, high and low. – Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji
- You have so many Creative Powers, Lord; Your Bountiful Blessings are so Great. So many of Your beings and creatures praise You day and night. You have so many forms and colors, so many classes, high and low. – Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji
- Good artists copy, great artists steal. – Pablo Picasso
- Our American story, for generations, is of a people who seek to move forward. A people who look at a mountain and worry not about the tough climb ahead, but dream about the view from the summit. – Bill Owens
- Eveyone is a genius at least once a year. A real genius has his original ideas closer together. – George C. Lichtenberg
- Eveyone is a genius at least once a year. A real genius has his original ideas closer together. – George C. Lichtenberg
- “An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.” – Jean Cocteau
- “Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people really talk, make paltry human enterprises seem important. Singers and musicians show