The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes, and he annexes everything.

Oscar Wilde

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Borrowing and creativity Creativity

Author

Oscar Wilde

Source

Olivia at the Lyceum Dramatic Review

Language

English

Time

1885 1880s 19th century

Occupation

Playwright Writer

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Ireland Europe

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Wilde, Oscar. "Olivia at the Lyceum." Dramatic Review, 30 May 1885.

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God is dead: but as the human race is constituted, there will perhaps be caves for millenniums yet, in which people will show his shadow.

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Friedrich Nietzsche
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Time
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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Die frohliche Wissenschaft [The Gay Science]. Chemnitz: Ernst Schmeitzner, 1882, bk. 3, no. 108.

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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi

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Discovery Originality Creativity
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Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi
Language
English
Time
1962 1960s 20th century
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Szent-Gyorgyi, Albert. Quoted in The Scientist Speculates: An Anthology of Partly-Baked Ideas, written by Irving John Good. Heinemann, 1962, ch. 1, sect. 6.