Sunday, 17 February 2013

{Originality}[5th May 1970]


[Redbook1:145-146][19700505:1815e]{Originality}[5th May 1970]

Tuesday 5th May 1970   6.15pm [continued]

(L)       No artistic creation -- no creation of any sort -- indeed, no interpretation -- is truly original.  Creation and interpretation are rather like mathematics, or cookery, or -- better still -- chemistry: one puts together the various influences of a heredity and environment -- which last covers everything, really, including the first -- and you may get just a mixture with the properties of all the original influences relatively discernible; but if the conditions are right, if there is a catalyst in the environment, you may develop a compound-like structure, a completely new approach and attitude: new, but not truly original, for it is wholly rooted in older matters, however different from them it may be.

            What fun this all is.

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