Quotes About Originality

To be just like other persons is small credit to one, while to be unlike others is a mark of distinction.

All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.

They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.

But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.

Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.

Thou shalt not tweet to be retweeted.

We're all different and I respect my difference. I just try to be myself at all times. As long as I do that my music is always going to be different.

Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.

I have no confidence issues with the impact or the quality of the music. No one in hip-hop, before this point and to this point, with all due respect, has done this.

Since when was genius found respectable?

...the people at large absolutely gave James Brown respect. He was an original like a Rembrandt or a Picasso

Fashion's about taking chances, it's about taking risks, and just doing it the way you feel comfortable doing it. If you do that, people will respect it more.

I think the movies that don't try to please people are movies that you respect more in the end.

Respect movements, flee schools.

It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out.

If you're going to do a romantic comedy it was about housing it in something that we haven't seen before.

Remember, the village idiot was the spiritual man who built the ark and saved his family. Keep being you and never give up marching to the beat of your own drum!

I may not be perfect, but i'm always me

Action Painting was all the rage then, and everybody was adopting this style and selling the stuff at outrageous prices. My paintings were the polar opposite in terms of intention, but I believed that producing the unique art that came from within myself was the most important thing I could do to build my life as an artist.

It is not permitted to a man, who takes up pen or chisel, to seek originality, for passion is his only business, and he cannot but mould or sing after a new fashion because no disaster is like another.

Talent perceives differences; genius, unity

It's clear that you want to seem original. But is it possible that you—?" "It is clear," interrupted I-330, "that to be original means to stand out among others; consequently, to be original means to violate the law of equality. What was called in the language of the ancients 'to be common' is with us only the fulfilling of one's duty. For—

It is clear," interrupted I-330, "that to be original means to stand out among others; consequently, to be original means to violate the law of equality.

To be original means to distinguish yourself from others. It follows that to be original is to violate the principle of equality.