Quotes About Originality

Every original poet has a new insight, or rather introduces a new power.

I don't think it's wise to manufacture a painting, just for the sake of working... if the impulse isn't truly there, the painting will lack power.

Your fear of becoming a cliche is what turns you into one. If you remove the fear, we are all really walking contradictions, hypocrites and paradoxical cliches

I take it as a compliment when somebody calls me crazy. I would be offended if I was one of the sheeple, one of the sleepwalkers in the matrix or part of the collective hallucination we call 'normal

Be yourself and become wealthy!

Cliches are the viruses that infect your writing with diseases.

Minds need the unusual, because the unusual has the power to shake the mind!

Just because you shot Jesse James...don't make you Jesse

Creativity is when a stupid clever soul gets up from bed and do amazing things that makes the world think he is wise.

In a world full of oddities, it's how you outdo yourself within your own schizophrenia of abnormalities, that determines your most interesting self.

Innovation lies in a creative mind

For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator.

If you're lucky enough to be different, never change.

The world loves a clone and a good knock-off. It cheats the artist... In the obsession for technical wizardry, people disappear; and if your voice isn't present in a relationship, you don't matter.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

It is our uniqueness that gives freshness and vitality to a relationship.

Mad cause he aint like me... Oh you mad cause nobody ever did it like me.

The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.

If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art.

Here's a tip more academic authors could heed: don't make "originality" your only goal. If there is one common failure in letters from first-time authors it's the suggestion that nothing like this manuscript has ever been attempted. If you've found a dark corner of the field to mine as your own, you might have lucked into something valuable and overlooked

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.

Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.