#2,754

The modern desire to be original makes the mediocre artist believe that simply being different is the secret to being original.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 442

#2,692

I have no pretensions to originality: the commonplace, if it is old, will do for me.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 434

#2,593

When the intellectual climate where something occurs is lacking in originality, the occurrence only has interest for those whom it concerns physically.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 419

#2,451

Conformism and non-conformism are symmetrical expressions of a lack of originality.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 395

#2,362

Originality is not something that is sought, but something that is found.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 382

#2,303

The ages in which original ideas grow scarce devote themselves to reviving errors.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 373

#2,100

A great artist is obviously one who is disconcerting.
But a great artist is not one who plans on being disconcerting, but one who begins by disconcerting himself.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 340

#2,039

The conventional is not necessarily an aesthetic defect, since it is merely a sociological trait.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 331

#2,006

Whoever believes he is original is just ignorant.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 326

#1,998

The emancipated intellectual shares with his contemporaries the “personal taste” he prides himself on.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 325

#1,637

For art’s current anemia let us blame the doctrine which advises each artist to prefer the invention of his own aesthetic idiom to the unmistakable use of a common aesthetic idiom.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 274

#1,578

When originality is rare, innovation abounds.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 263

#1,079

The appearance of nationalism in any nation indicates that its originality is in its death throes.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 191

#883

The colony which gains its independence passes from acknowledged imitation to artificial originality.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 161

#819

Obviously, in many cases we come up with our ideas, but we are not the first, nor the only ones, to come up with them.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 150

#722

Intentional, systematic originality is mediocrity’s contemporary uniform.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 131

#619

Since the authentic work of art is obviously original, the cultural illiterate imagines that the original work is necessarily a work of art.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 115

#287

Nobody thinks seriously as long as originality matters to him.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 64