Don’t reinvent. Re-tell.
Whenever I slip back in the mindset of trying to be original—write an original melody, create an unique design—I am reminded that all I need to do is retell what is classic and true.
Flour + Water, the best new restaurant in San Francisco, isn’t new at all:
The cuisine of flour + water has literally been done for hundreds of years in Italy—we are not re-inventing it but just trying to pay tribute to what we believe is the world’s purest style of cooking.
A post about this wouldn’t be complete without a classic C.S. Lewis quote:
“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”
