shinkyomu showed this to me, thought I'd share some of my favorites. Some of the quotes I picked out are funny or eloquent ways of rephrasing what Marshall Vandruff talked about in his composition seminars-- "Originality is about taking existing things and presenting them in new ways."

( LJ Cut: The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot. (Salvador Dali) )

So there goes this saying that you know you're a real artist when you slip up with your X-acto knife.

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