Quotes About Originality

All films are born free and equal.

Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.

Dare to be yourself

But, of course, of course, I imitated everyone! Except myself. -- Pablo Picasso

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself—and thus make yourself indispensable.

Originality in photography as distinct from originality in painting lies in the essentially objective character of photography. For the first time, between the originating object and its reproduction there intervenes only the instrumentality of a nonliving agent. For the first time an image of the world is formed automatically, without the creative intervention of man.

Look at Scottish guys wearing kilts - you could look at them and laugh, but the way they carry themselves, how can you? You can wear some of the weirdest things and be cool. If you believe in it, that's what makes it cool.

Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.

What's cool about indie rock is that one band can do effectively the same thing as another band, and one band nails it, and the other one doesn't. I like that elusiveness.

Where's your will to be weird?

I'm just gonna be more weird and unique as possible.

If you're different, or if you think something about you is just weird and out of the ordinary, I just think that's so dope.

I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do.

It's good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way.

Maybe your weird is my normal. Who's to say?

Nowadays, everybody wanna be weird. We know how to manifest being weird.

I don't have to try to be perfect because I know that my fans like me for who I am. They like me because I am weird and kind of funky, but still really calm.

Everyone has their thing, and I was the weird, artsy kid.

I made some games, but I'm pretending like I didn't because they all turned out weird.

I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started doing harmonics and tapping on the guitar and pulling off strings and doing all this weird stuff that no one had ever done before.

I'm a weird guy with a weird sense of humor.

My friends think it's weird that I spray perfume on my feet.

I was trying to make my name just Artist in the beginning, but it was weird at first, because I wasn't an R&B singer or nothing. Not an R&B singer. I didn't do no melodic songs, none of that yet.

I just go where it feels the most honest to go; then I deal with people thinking it's weird afterwards.