"Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to."— Jim Jarmusch
Saturday, 9 July 2011
Nothing is Original
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3 comments:
Ooh, this is a good one.
Thanks!
Great quote.
Oscar Wilde was once accused of plagiarizing the plot of one of his plays and replied:
I took the plot of this play from the Family Herald, which took it - wisely, I feel - from my novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. People love a wicked aristocrat who seduces a virtuous maid, and they love a virtuous maiden for being seduced by a wicked aristocrat. I have given them what they like, so that they may learn to appreciate what I like to give them.
(Jean Paul Raymond & Charles Ricketts. Oscar Wilde: Recollections. 1932. 54).
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