Content Topic: originality
-
Quotes: Duchamp, Poe, Borges, James
Duchamp: “I found some common points between chess and painting. Actually when you play a game of chess it is like designing something or constructing a mechanism of some kind by which you win or lose. The competitive side has no importance, but the thing itself is very, very plastic, and that is probably what [...]
-
Quote: Originality
Le Lionnais: A writer appears on earth — let’s pass over his conception and other details — and what does he do? He reads previous writers and starts intersecting. If he doesn’t, he’s an original creator. Latis: We certainly know that originality is the opposite of culture.” Oulipo Compendium, 186-87. (translated transcript of a meeting [...]
All Posts