Quotes About Originality

Art should be able to be innovative without compromising itself. That's why I believe artists should have bigger preoccupations than checking the price tags on their work or becoming curators' darlings.

I'm dead serious about my craft and just really serious about making music in itself. I take pride in making songs and albums where no two songs sound alike. That's the challenge and that's what it's all about, to keep it original and fresh and funky.

I believe in originality, primarily. However, it's important to know what there has been before to aim in that direction. Art history informs us. It informs our mind. I like to look at books, exhibitions, paintings, as a computer, subconsciously taking on information.

Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.

I want to be a prime creator - as every self-regarding artist should do.

I am the primitive of the method I have invented.

I was always more of a Lydia Deeds than a Disney Princess, so anything offbeat like that, I would love to be a part of.

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

What gets me excited is the original principle.

I have certain signatures, certain cutting principles. It could be a raw-edged seam; it could be leaving the lining of sheepskin exposed so it's not perfectly finished. I invent new ways to do it, but the end goal is always the same.

A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.

When we first started to write our first movie, 'You Are Going To Prison,' we wanted it to be crazy and unique, brand new, our voice, not like anything that'd ever been before. It took us about a year to write our first script.

You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.

Making comedy is a privilege, so you should be doing something no one else can do. That's when it feels like art; it's a personal expression and it's being done in a unique way.

I'm an anti-standard operating procedure guy.

When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it.

I design music; I don't produce it.

Being essentially a creator, I never set out to shock, always thinking about creating my work and not about the benefits it could produce.

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

I don't know if most people know it or not, but I produce, like, 95% of my own stuff.

From that, I became very anxious to produce something of my own.

Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something.

I'm not really married to the craft of jazz - I'm married to me, and my style, and whatever I produce.

It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?'