Quotes About Originality

Authenticity inspires. Just be real

Your authenticity is the gateway to all good things

You don't want to sound as though you used a Sharper Image catalogue for a thesaurus.

You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent.

Indeed,' I said. That was Nero Wolfe's word, and I never used it except in moments of stress, and it severely annoyed my when I caught myself using it, because when I look in a mirror I prefer to see me as is, with no skin grafted from anybody else's hide, even Nero Wolfe's.

If you do not have the innate ability to seek out someone's work on your own, and you have to wait for Hollywood to do it for you, then you are some sort of hillside grazer of culture; you are a sheep, a cow, what is biologically classified as a ruminant...Fuck you.

The creation of an authentic work of art, the creation of an authentic life - they are one and the same.

Good brands reflect the histories of the time and the group of people that made them. They can not be copied. They can not be recycled.

escuchar atentamente a todo aquel que tenga una opinión para compartir y no solo a los autoproclamados expertos. También implica aprender del otro, del mercado y de los errores que se cometen a fin de llegar a un lugar original y radicalmente nuevo. Quizá lo más importante sea hacerlo divirtiéndose, con D mayúscula.

Richard Buckminster Fuller

Yes, and this is mine. (Baldrick produces a single scruffy piece of paper.) My magnificent octopus.

never wrote a tune in my life," he said.137 "What do you mean by that?" asked Robins, surprised. "Those tunes are all in the air," Monroe replied. "I just happened to be the first one to pick them out.

Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract.

Synthesize or improvise.

The creative individual is no longer viewed as an iconoclast. He—or she—is the new mainstream.

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or a new thing in an old way.

They are, in fact, like nothing but themselves. They are the crowns of five white spruces laden with cones, bending in the wind as they do every day of their existence. Likeness is the sole problem of men.

A good answer must be reinvented many times, from scratch.

Do not invent anything; simply discover it.

They can't believe a kid worked for months on an original idea, for no reason at all except the pleasure of looking until you see something.

Independent thought—a power of attraction all its own.

A chemical semaphore passes through Nick's brain: Suppose a person had sculpted any one of these, just as they stand. That single work would be a landmark of human art.

A good answer is worth reinventing from scratch, again and again.