Quotes About Originality

The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.

Prefer what intuition whispers in your ear to what you have done and redone ten times in your head.

Let nothing be changed and all be different.

By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well.

To live originally is to live authentically, to not be defined by culture or environment, to be truly oneself. We do not want to ignore culture. We live in it; but we need not be defined by it. Living originally, we are in the world but we are not of the world.

We can say nothing but what hath been said. Our poets steal from Homer…. Our story-dressers do as much; he that comes last is commonly best.

They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works.

It was assumed that genre films could not have any artistic merit, because they were not original works and because they were not authored works. These standards of evaluation are based upon a romantic theory of art that places the highest value on the concepts of originality, person creativity, and the idea of the individual artist as genius.

The book was a pleasure to write, and I thought it both original and good, though what was original about it was not necessarily good, and what was good about it was not always original.

Daily Law: Embrace your strangeness. Identify what makes you different. Fuse those things together and become an anomaly.

Understand: the greatest impediment to creativity is your impatience, the almost inevitable desire to hurry up the process, express something, and make a splash. What happens in such a case is that you do not master the basics; you have no real vocabulary at your disposal. What you mistake for being creative and distinctive is more likely an imitation of other people's style, or personal rantings that do not really express anything.

ignore your weaknesses and resist the temptation to be more like others.

Those who are truly original and different do not need to make a great show of it.

The Dimensional Mind has two essential requirements: one, a high level of knowledge about a field or subject; and two, the openness and flexibility to use this knowledge in new and original ways.

In any event, you will want to go as far as you can in cultivating your uniqueness and the originality that goes with it. In a world full of people who seem largely interchangeable, you cannot be replaced.

Leonardo ansiaba aprender todas esas habilidades, pero pronto descubrió algo en sí mismo: no podía hacer sencillamente lo que se le encargara; debía convertirlo en algo propio, inventar en vez de imitar al maestro.

Embrace Your Weirdness The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. —Coco Chanel

Daily Law: Always stick to what makes you weird, odd, strange, different. That's your source of power. Podcast Interview. Curious with Josh Peck. December 4, 2018

Leonardo was eager to learn all of these skills, but soon he discovered in himself something else: he could not simply do an assignment; he needed to make it something of his own, to invent rather than imitate the Master.

Men who tried to stand on their forebears' shoulders rather than their own feet often found themselves shorter by a head.

And not the sort of thing you have imagination enough to think up.

The cards are stacked, against any original mind, and perhaps properly so.

If an undertaking was easy, someone else already would have done it. —  If you follow in another's footsteps, you miss

When spontaneity and individuality and really good original stuff occurred in a classroom it was in spite of the instruction, not because of it. This seemed to make sense. He was ready to resign. Teaching dull conformity to hateful students wasn't what he wanted to do.