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“Originality is vastly overrated nowadays. It's a modern conceit of the ‘mad genius’ variety … Striving for originality results in … art that screams for attention but doesn’t have the backbone to sustain it.” (Walter Darby Bannard) This may explain why original content is overrated.

Walter Darby Bannard reflects quite deeply on creativity. He defines “to create” as “to originate, to bring something into being which did not exist before.” But he problematizes that notion for art: he says that this pure “origination” is not really what art-making necessarily is.

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