Originality
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- TheBlueOne
Discuss:
"People TRYING to be original always arrive at the same boring place. Striving for originality takes you far away from your true self, and makes your work mediocre. The improvisor has to realise that the more obvious he is, the more original he appears. An artist who is inpired is being obvious."
- Teeuwen0
where'd you get that drivel from?
- k0na_an0k0
a thread on originality is so un-original.
that's irony. now you know... and...
- jevad0
ah. Pls see 'Stolen Goods' thread
- version30
the most ironic part is that in a thread titled originality he used someone elses quote to prove a point
this thread was dead in the water before he hit "broadcast"
- jfletcher0
This post confuses me... I want it to be summed up in a catchy line, like "to be original is to be ones own self"
- ********0
maybe
- brandelec0
good call on insurance jevad
599's a sweet bike to bang around the city too
- brandelec0
wrong thread, my bad
- ********0
that question is not even formulated properly. making original work has nothing to do with the "self", but an evolution of the work itself. only a priest (or a lame expressionist) thinks like that.
- _salisae_0
if you have to think about it this hard you've got problems
- radar0
if you can't get it hard you've got problems
_salisae_
(Aug 31 06, 10:13)
- ********0
But even better, The Sunday Times unveils a splendid hoax perpetrated on the hapless Wilson. The paper reveals that a 1944 love letter, used in his book as proof of an apparent affair, is a fake. It was sent to the biographer by a person calling herself Eve de Harben, of an untraceable address in the Cote d’Azur. She sent a typed version, claiming that the original belonged to an equally untraceable American collector. Wilson, all unsuspecting, welcomed the document and included it in his book. Now, close examination reveals that the opening letters of each sentence spell out the message “A. N. WILSON IS A SHIT”. To add to the joy of onlookers, the “T” comes from a parodically Betjemanesque 1940s signoff — “Tinkerty-tonk, my darling”.
- jfletcher0
Everyone go watch the ending dialogue from Suicide Club.
Are you connected to yourself?
- Mimio0
Who's being quoted here?
It's a pretty cynical standpoint to take for something that's really an amorphous process. Namely, the idea that someone can get away from themselves and their own experiences as an artist. Art is the action of the artist making their subject out of themselves, a shibboleth.
- ********0
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shi…
shibboleth, huh?
- ********0
"I was seven years a servant in a hole, lying on my back"
- Mimio0
Like a cultural touchstone. The idea that an artist attempts to embody those languages in their work.
- version30
http://www.keithjohnstone.com/
i think he said it
- TheBlueOne0
Version4 - absolutely correct.
He's an acting coach dude. My friend the actor hit me with it in an email and then we argued about how much shite it is. Of course when I said "Actors aren't really artists.." he got all flustered and got all SAG on me...