The modernist thirst for originality makes the mediocre artist believe that the secret of originality consists simply in being different.
—Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Originality
5 October 2016 by 3 Comments
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I’ll take competence over originality any day of the week.
They called Frank Lloyd Wright original when he designed a two-story house with no stairs.
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