Quotes About Originality

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have a new idea, you are in a minority of one.

Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to write well you have to forget the grammar.

There is no algorithm for creativity.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value

Imitation is being rewarded. They're learning that if you fit right in the mold, you get rewarded. Music is no longer a form of expression - it's a means to a lifestyle.

What's important to a fashion designer? It's much more than learning how to make clothes. In fact, that merely makes you a dressmaker. It doesn't make you into a fashion designer.

A creative idea will be defined simply as one that is both novel and useful or influential in a particular social setting.

Creativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective.

The people who were learning from me tended to be more commercial performers who were gonna rip off the salient idea to do it in a way that will sell, but they weren't going for the music.

Birds do not attend music school, but compose timeless masterpieces.

Change the world by being yourself.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

The best way to get people to think outside the box is not to create the box in the first place.

There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.

The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.

If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much!

Creativity is intelligence having fun.

In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.

When life gives you lemons don't make lemonade, make pink lemonade. Be unique.

That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.